In the middle of the night, Sasuke arrives at Konohagakure just before they are about to close the gates. Sasuke signs in relief.
- I'm home he says under his breath
They close the gate behind him; as he walks in, he sees a familiar bench, the bench he had once carried a young Sakura and laid her on it, while he was about to leave the village.
He sighed and decided to head towards the bench,
He places his hand on the bench to sit down and rest. Sasuke stretches his body, lays his back, and starts looking up at the stars. His memories of Sakura begin to come to mind…- 'I love you with all my heart,' 'Sakura- thank you.'
Then all the horrible memories of him trying to kill her, followed by the memories of him saying all the means things he said. His face grunts with annoyance
In the background, he could hear someone approaching,
"Sasuke-kun?"
He opens his eyes and sees a glimpse of shiny pink hair, which reminded him of cherry blossom.
"Sakura?"
She signs and tells him to move over. She falls her whole body to the bench.
"Today has been a long day," she says, stretching upwards and looking at the stars. Still looking up and saying, "you're planning on sleeping here tonight?" Sasuke still looked bewildered by the exhausted shinobi, who wasn't acting like her usually shy self. "um," he hadn't thought about that. He didn't have a place to stay anymore.
She looks at him, saying, "well, this bench isn't that bad to sleep on," Sasuke turns his face with annoyance and a shade of red.
"My house has a spare room with a futon. My parents are also away, so you can stay with me tonight."
Sasuke nods, and they both get up and start walking. They walked for a while in silence till they reached Sakura's house.
Sakura grabs her keys and opens her front door. Letting Sasuke in. she started saying where the second room was, but she couldn't finish her sentence due to her passing out. Sasuke catches her with his hand.
And stands there holding her, a moment of being dumbfounded on what to do with her.
'Ok, her room in this one.. I think.' He drags Sakura by her waist and opens the bedroom door. He places her down on her bed. He stretches his hand and brushes her face, moving her pink hair off her face and holding strands of her hair for a moment. He breaths and let them fall off his hand.
Sasuke gets up and walks out of the room. Closing the door behind him and having one last look.
He goes into the spare bedroom and finds the futon. He undresses and prepares for bed. As his heavy eyes drop-down, he falls asleep.
Sasuke finds himself on the bridge where he once tried to kill Sakura. He saw his younger self attempting to kill her. Sasuke screams 'Sakura!" where the hell is Naruto to stop him? His body starts shaking. And it all went black.
He hears his voice – how are you going to atone your sins for her? You have course her so much pain –
Sasuke wakes up in a sweat and heavy breathing. He takes a moment to settle down. He looks towards the window and notices the sun hasn't risen yet. He gets up and heads towards the bathroom, and prepares a bath. He starts to soap himself and then raises it off before he gets into the tub.
Sakura starts to open her eyes
– 'was that a dream, and how did I get home,'
A half-asleep Sakura gets up and mumbles towards herself. She starts undressing with her eyes half open. Struggling to get to the door, she heads towards the bathroom, still in her underwear.
She opens the bathroom door, not noticing Sasuke naked in the bathtub. Sasuke, on the other hand, noticed straight away. With a bit of shock on his face. Sakura grabs her toothbrush and starts brushing her teeth. At the same time, she is about to unclip her bra,
"Sakura," hearing her name said by Sasuke, she snaps into reality. She looks up and sees Sasuke naked in her bath.
"Sa..su…ke-kun…" , her face completely red with blood coming out of her nose. she then realises she is standing there half naked In front of him, she does a small scream and rushes out of the bathroom.
-it wasn't a dream…his here…in my bathroom …naked…..omg….breathe Sakura breathe.
"I'm so sorry, Sasuke-kun" she says in a panic. She hears a grunt from the other side of the door,
She started noticing the smell of Sasuke's clothes, "I'll wash your clothes,"
"Sakura," he said in a panic,
"I have some of my dad's old clothes that you can wear," she said. She puts Sasuke's cloth in the wash and grabs the male clothing from the spare room.
Sasuke sighs in relief, knowing he will have something to wear.
He gets out of the tub and starts drying off. Looking at the yukata and putting it on. He gets out of the bathroom and meets Sakura in the kitchen.
She had prepared breakfast for them, Sasuke walks towards the dining table and grabs the seat. Sakura looks at him and smiles. "It suites you," Sasuke grabs his green tea, about to drink it, and asks Sakura. "How long are your parents away for?"
Sakura looks slightly surprised and blushes "um, for a week," Sasuke nods to acknowledge her answer. Sakura grabs her empty plate and places it in the sink.
"um, I'm going to have a shower now, and…..sorry about before," she says before heading towards the bathroom.
Sasuke looks up and says, "Is that an invitation?" Sakura stops in shock, blood rushing to her face. She moves her head like a robot to face him. Sasuke went back to continue drinking his tea with a deadpan look.
"ahh…." was all Sakura could say. Sasuke continues, "So we could then even out the playing field. Since you did walk on me naked," he then turns his head towards Sakura and gives her a slight evil smirk.
"ahh NOOO, not an invitation! And I'm so sorry about before," Sakura rushes towards the bathroom and locks it. Breathing heavily 'is this even Sasuke-kun? Sakura, get it together, GET IT TOGETHER!' Sakura had the quickest shower of her lifetime.
"Um, I'm ready to head out," Sakura says while grabbing her bag,
"hn, I need to meet up with Naruto," said Sasuke. Sakura tills her head. Sasuke looks at her and continues, "I have to give him a gift,"
"Is it a wedding gift?" Sakura inquires
"hn"
Sakura puts her shoes on. "Ok, Let's go!"