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AUTHOR'S NOTE: for all of you out there, I have new story… but don't worry. I'll be updating this one everyday aight? I just want to see how much people think of my new story and if you want me to continue it. The title is "Happiness Goes A Long Way". Please… please read it if you want to help. THANKS!

One more important note… I'm going out of town tomorrow and I'll be gone for about two or three days so I'm giving you this long chap to hold you through the time I'm gone. Lol, take care ya'll.

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Hey guys! Here's another long chapter! Hope you like it. Once again thanks for all of your awesome reviews! Once again if you missed reading my note above this one… please do have the time to read it okay? Thanks… messaging time :D

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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. But I do own this story and the other stories with my name so don't ever try to get those away from me or you're gonna see hell! :D

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Chapter 28: Their Meeting

"I'm going out…" Sasuke told Ishize as she was piling up documents in their new house in Japan.

"Don't take long." She cried back.

He went out and rode on his never changing black hummer. He rode on. It was raining and the cold rain was pelting hard.

There were a lot of people on the street now. He wondered why all of them were here on such a bad weather. They were all in black. He couldn't imagine someone being this famous in Japan who could've just died.

He drove on slowing down because of the too much people now. The way they were headed was towards the cemetery.

He moved on. Something caught his attention. It was a cry. A loud one at that.

"Sakuraaaaa!" a girl said holding a picture of Sakura with her autograph.

He stopped dead on the street. There were cars honking for him to go and move on. He couldn't care less on how mad they could get.

He jumped out of his luxury car and went to the girl that had shouted Sakura's name.

"Excuse me… I don't mean to bother you but… why are all of you here?" he asked worriedly hoping that what he had in his mind was not the reason why all of them were here wearing the clothes for the dead.

"Sakura… Haruno Sakura… I'm sure you know her" the girl cried wildly holding the collar of Sasuke's polo and pushing him back and forth.

"Yeah… what about her?" he asked not caring if he was now soaked in rain.

"She's dead… someone in New York hit her hard and they flew her body back here to be buried." She cried on releasing Sasuke who just stood frozen to the ground.

"It couldn't be…" he ran fast for his hummer and turned his car to where all the other people were headed.

He drove fast careful though that he wouldn't bump another person and he'd be the one responsible for his or her death like now.

As soon as he reached the cemetery, he jumped down and ran for it but to his dismay, the body was on the way to being buried.

"No…" he said to himself.

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Sasuke boomed into their room to find Ishize sleeping on a pile of documents.

"You! Wake up!" he said as he shook her.

"What?!" she asked surprised.

"Why did you do it… huh? Did you really have to kill her?! Huh!?" he shouted to her face.

She pulled his hands off her and stood her ground.

"What the hell are you talking about?" she asked angrily removing her reading glasses.

"Why did you have to go that far and kill Sakura?!" he said kneeling in front of her burying his face in his hands.

"But…" Ishize said surprised herself.

"Oh don't give me those stupid fake I-didn't-go-that-far statement. You know what you did!" Sasuke said.

"But really… I didn't go that far" she said with hand over her mouth.

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"So what are you gonna' do tomorrow?" Ino asked as she dug in the food Kyo had made for all of them.

"I don't know yet… where do you word Ino?" Sakura asked happily.

"Mommy works at her flower shop" Yukumi said drinking water after her first bite off her steak.

"Can I help tomorrow?" Sakura asked happily pouring water into her glass.

"Sure…" Ino said happily. "But… I don't think it'll be easy sneaking you out unnoticed… I'm also scared that paparazzi are going to trash the place but hey… we'll figure that out tomorrow." Ino said taking another slice of her food.

They turned on the TV. What the news brought was a shocking one.

"I'm sorry to bring these to you Sakura fans out there… but last week on a Wednesday night at exactly 12:02 am in the morning at the New York airport, Sakura was been reported dead on being hit by a car owned by an unidentified person. Police are still trying to search who the suspect is. The body was flown back to her origin in Japan and was buried at the Green Valley Cemetery there. The pictures taken of her returning back here were just con as reported by others unknown. People say that it couldn't have been her because her body was buried a few days before she even reached the state. Maybe it was just someone who claims to look like her or maybe just someone who really looks like her. Whatever this confusion is, people are trying to get things straight by investigating on their own, but the public already knows the truth… and it is still held in their hearts when Sakura was last week."

They didn't bother to turn off the TV.

"What the heck-?" Hinata said with a hand over her mouth.

"So… I'm not Sakura?" Sakura asked frozen herself.

"You are Sakura! Maybe Ishize's behind this…" Ino said putting fingers to her chin and sort of massaging it.

"Well… this is good isn't it?" Sakura said changing her mind about her bad thoughts about the news.

"Why's that?" Shikamaru asked.

"Cause' I won't have to suffer remembering what I had in the past right?" she said smiling. "This could be a new life for me… being always happy…" she said as she dug into her food once more.

Everyone thought for a while and smiled.

"I guess your right" Tenten said smiling along and digging into her food once more.

"Well then lets give you a new name… we'll still call you Sakura though, but when your around other people… we're gonna call you Hane Sayuki" Ino said snapping her fingers.

The boys just looked at them smiling like they were making an evil plot with 2 year old minds.

"That's cute!" Sakura said after she drank her glass of water.

They put their glasses on it and made it final.

"Don't you think that Sakura should've given Sasuke the chance to explain… I mean before, cause' if Sasuke really did pick up the courage to leave Ishize for a while to try to explain and tell her that he still loved her… then Sasuke has nothing to do with this… that bitch Ishize is behind all this…" Neji thought carefully explaining all of these to the boys in the group.

"You could've told me that before cause' I had that nagging feeling ever since I heard Sasuke tried to talk to Sakura when we were still in 4th year…" Shikamaru said twirling the noodle he had in his fork.

"Yeah… Sakura is the only one making herself suffer…" Naruto said sipping from his spoon.

"But do you think changing herself now would do her any food?" Neji said whispering the conversation to the others.

"Well… it's better for her but not for Sasuke… we better go see him sometime once everything's all messed up… you know how he loves her… once he knows what this news said and maybe checked it out for himself… seeing Sakura once more will make him think he's crazy…" Shikamaru stated putting all of the pieces together.

"Yeah…" Naruto said once more.

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"Welcome!" Sakura said to the customer that just got in wiping his wet jacket making sure that Ino's flower shop wasn't that much messy.

"I'm sorry but can I-" the guy said looking at Sakura. "Oh My God… you're alive?" he asked shocked that he took a step back.

"Huh? Me? Of course I've always been alive…" Sakura said playing along knowing that he was shocked to find her, who people thought was dead, standing in front of him,

"Oh Sakura… people need to know-"

"I'm sorry but I don't know who this Sakura is… I'm Sayuki… Hane Sayuki." She said correcting him.

The guy massaged his temple and nodded, "Oh sorry… I thought you were someone everyone knew… ehe" he said finally picking out flowers and paying for the still looking at Sakura non-stop.

"Thanks for coming… bye" Sakura said waving at the guy smiling.

"Sakura… how's the shop?" Ino said after a few minutes the guy had gone out.

"It's okay… a lot of people thought they've gone crazy cause of me though" she said laughing.

Ino laughed along.

She went home that night sleepy but felt like she still needed to do something.

"Hey…" Kyo greeted her with the smell of his fresh cooked crabs.

"Ummm…" she said in delight. "It smells good!" she said happily.

"I made it for you" Kyo said finally getting out of the kitchen with a pink ribbon-and-lace apron carrying the bowl of cooked smelling-good crabs.

Sakura laughed.

"What?" Kyo asked smiling.

"Well…

She said covering her mouth with one hand trying to stifle her laughter as another hand held her forefinger pointing at the apron Kyo was wearing.

Kyo rolled his eyes with smile still plastered on his face. "I couldn't find my blue apron…" he explained.

"You mean…" Sakura said smiling stylishly as she opened her purse and pull out a blue apron. "This?" she asked.

"Why you…" Kyo said starting to move from his place going towards Sakura.

"Try tickling me to death and I wont eat your oh so specially cooked for me crabs" she bribed.

"Fine…" Kyo said smiling as he put both of his hands up in the air in the form of being surrendered.

She put her purse on the table near the door.

She walked towards the dining table and tasted the soup of the crabs.

"Got you now…" he said as he started to pick her up by the waist and tickle her once he put her on top of the couch.

Sakura laughed and had a tear ready to fall from her eyes cause of too much laughing.

"You jerk!" she shouted still laughing.

Kyo slowed down.

"I guess I really am." He said as he stopped and stared at Sakura's smiling blooming face.

He moved in closer to her face. A few more inches until they're lips would touch.

He gave her a short kiss and stood up much more excited for her to taste his cooking.

"C'mon! Taste it and tell me what you think" he said pulling her hand towards the dining table once more.

She looked at him smiling and finally looked at the delicious looking and smelling crabs.

She took a sip from its soup.

"Well?" Kyo asked excitedly…

"Get me a bigger plate than this cause I love it!" she said sitting down hurriedly as she took her plate and put rice on it and the crabs on top.

Kyo laughed. "I'm glad you like it." He said sitting down with her.

They dug into Kyo's drooling dish. "I always wanted to be a chef instead of being a businessman…" he shared to her as she took another plateful

"then you should've just followed your dreams instead of what you think is gonna' bring you more money." She said as she looked at him.

"You think people will love my dishes here in Japan?" he asked putting a spoonful of crab meat and rice into his mouth.

"Totally!" Sakura said smiling as she looked at how much crabs there were left in the bowl.

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"I can't sleep…" he told Kyo as his arms were around her petite waist.

Kyo, who was obviously woken up, grunted.

He looked at the bedside clock. 11:30 PM.

"Why?" he asked.

"I don't know… maybe walking around town will help me clear my nerves." She said as she pushed the blankets away and stood up on her cold carpeted floor.

She wore a black tee and had her panties on.

Kyo on the other hand sat up on the bed wearing only boxers on.

He massaged his forehead. "Do you need anyone to go with you?" he asked ready to stand up if ever she said yes.

"No… it's okay…" she said smiling as she headed for the bathroom to change.

"You sure?" he asked gesturing to go back to sleep.

"Yeah…" she said looking back at him smiling as she turned on the lights and locked the door.

Kyo sighed smiling as he tried to go back to sleep.

Sakura got out a little while later wearing a short purple dress and white fur boots. She put on her fur coat that she wore that night

She put on her red scarf that was on her scarf stand near the door of her condominium.

Somehow the color red really hit her like a big school bus. She liked it. It was so striking to the eyes.

Suddenly a memory flashed in her mind. A blurred memory of her holding the hand of a boy finally when the memory was about to show her the face of the guy, she was brought back to reality which welcomed her with a very painful vain in her head that was throbbing like mad.

Was that just one of her memories? She shook her head, holding the door knob for support. She turned it still holding a painful expression on her face as one of her hands were on her forehead massaging it.

She closed the door behind her and stood up straight as the pain slowly faded away.

That was too weird.

She walked down the dim lit corridor and stopped an elevator from going down without her. She nodded at the old lady she was with in the elevator and the old lady smiled at her.

"Don't take this as an offense miss but… are you Sakura?" The old lady asked holding her glasses straightly.

Damn this lady is too old to have good eyesight still.

"Uhhm… sorry but you must have the wrong person in mind… my name is Sayuki… Hane Sayuki." She said smiling.

"That's a pity… she was so nice to chat with when we were both along in this elevator. She lives in this condo too you know" the old lady said sighing. Probably reminiscing the days.

Once the elevator opened she bid goodbye to the old lady who smiled and nodded.

She walked out of the building to be welcomed by freezing night air.

She hugged herself tightly and exhaled which caused a cloud of water vapor to form in front of her.

She smiled. The streets were lit beautifully and it was silent. Somehow she loved this aura too much.

She walked on looking at the buildings with smile. If she ever got lost… that was no problem cause the group had already showed her all of Japan once they got back.

She felt happy she had friends like them.

She looked at her watch as she walked on.

11:35.

Better hurry if she wanted to check out that coffee shop down 3 blocks which was open until 12:30.

She walked a little bit faster. Cause' of too much bliss and happiness she was feeling right now she turned her pace into a walk-skip moment.

She turned right. There was a strong night air that collided with her and it blew her scarf away revealing the silver pendant necklace she had.

She picked her scarf of the ground and continued on.

Before she put her scarf back on, she held the pendant with three fingers admiring it with her touch.

I wonder who gave this… Ino and the others told me that if I didn't know… that was for my own good… she sighed at the thought. Maybe they're right…

She paced on until she reached the coffee shop. The smell of freshly brewed coffee reached the night air outside. She loved it and she got in.

The only people there were an old lady eating a cheesecake with a Latte.

Another was a couple, probably 16 or 17.

Then… there was a man massaging his temple as he drunk from his mug at the far corner of the shop where the glass wall was to have a view of the city outside.

He was handsome.

What was she thinking. She already had a boyfriend.

She ordered a Latte and big hot slice of brownie topped with Vanilla ice cream which they called "Brownie a la Mode" (A/N: I've tried to eat this one and trust me guys! It's so friggin heavenly delicious!")

She took a seat near the disturbed man and crossed her legs.

She looked around. The young couple was already making out. Young love… they were always hurrying up to become adults to get married and do the damn thing. She chuckled at the thought.

The lights dimmed in the shop. Wow… this was perfect for a performance coffee type area.

She inhaled a happy environment and looked outside the window.

She looked at the cars that sped by. My people in this town… they seemed to be nocturnal. She giggled.

She reached into her scarf and held her neck, finally she founf the pendant she had on. Somehow it was special to her… like it had something to do that she kept important and that whatever it was… this pendant could help her remember it.

She shook the thought out of her head.

Her order arrived and she thanked the waiter.

She looked outside once more drinking her Latte.

A car passed by her which shed light to her white beautiful face.

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Sasuke put down the mug he was holding and massaged his temple once more. He walked to the counter and ordered another Expresso.

He sat back down.

Sakura… he thought massaging the temple of his forehead once more. A tear was about to fall from his eyes. He wiped it before it even fell.

He picked up a picture from his table.

It showed him and Sakura on his back with her hands hugging him as her arms rested on his shoulder.

He remembered that day.

Flashback:

"Hey Sasuke! Wait up will ya?" Sakura shouted.

They were at the beach at that time. She was so beautiful in her white stringed bikini with brown square buttons making its outline.

He ran for it since he knew he made a mistake of picking her up a while ago and putting her in cold water.

Finally he stopped pitying Sakura.

"Finally!" she said as she caught up with him. "You don't ever freeze me alive again! You want me to die even before we get married?" she said jokingly.

"I don't of course… I was playing a little prank." He joked.

Being in her tired state, he carried Sakura on her back and led her back to where they settled on the beach.

Before they could reach the mat, Ino and the others arrived.

"Sakura!" Ino called out with a camera hanging from around her neck.

"Ino!" she said waving.

As soon as Ino ran for them and got at the right distance.

"Smile!" she said holding the camera up.

Sakura didn't come down from Sasuke's back. She smiled and so did Sasuke.

"One… Two…"

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He smiled a sad smile and uttered something to himself.

He looked out the window to find a few cars speeding by. The idiots. Just cause' there was no police in this part of the street at this time doesn't mean they need to make the place like grand theft auto speeding grounds.

He remembered how Sakura would always shout for him to stop whenever he went too fast on this side of town.

He laughed.

Another car was going from his back to where he should face front.

He watched as the car pass by slowly. At least that person who was driving this car had a sense.

The car's beams were strong as it moved through the streets forward.

The light shone through the glass wall until it shone a beautiful pink haired woman.

He shook his head.

Oh no no no no no no… he thought shaking his head. I am not going crazy!

He opened his eyes slowly to find the lady looking at him too.

She smiled.

"Sakura…" he said desperately.

He stood up and walked fast towards her. It frightened Sakura a bit.

"Sakura…" he said hugging her tightly.

He wasn't crazy at all. He could feel her. He held her tightly and he let her go as soon as she wiggled a bit too much.

"Sakura! You don't know how much I missed you. I thought you were dead… I…" he couldn't continue.

He hugged her once more.

"Uhhmm… this is a bit weird for me…" she said. What was this guy thinking, she had a boyfriend. No wait! What was SHE thinking allowing such a handsome man to hug her.

"Sakura… please just listen to me… I want to tell-" Sasuke stopped as soon as Sakura pushed her away with a frightened expression on her face.

"I'm sorry to be rude but… who are you?

tbc…

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hey guys! Hope you liked the chap! I made it long for all of you cause' I'm gonna be out of town for about 2 to 3 days incase you haven't read my note at the beginning of this chapter. Well…

READ && REVIEW AIGHT? Thanks by in advance! :D

Love lots,

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