A/N: Man..I swear i'm gonna have a hernia trying to come up with ideas for this story...they really aren't flowing! I feel like a rapper without his rhymes..or a fat kid without his sandwhich...Talk about that vomit on his sweater, mom's spaghetti... That's basically what happened to my ideas..up my ass like my head is right now..I'm gonna cry..

Disclaimer: If I ownded the Naruto series..Sasuke wouldn't be such a jerk! And Sakura wouldn't be such a pansy!! And Naruto..would be the same? What's Naruto without the idiotic, funny, Naruto? BUT..i would so have an even balance off episodes that would make you be roflYao. and then episodes that would make you cry rivers..yep so there it is..

Those Sharingan Eyes

Chapter 4: Contemplation

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The sky had long ago lost its colorful light due to the setting of the sun; the radiant moon had taken its place, its luminescent rays of moonlight providing some sheltering light to the sky. Few speckles of stars made themselves manifest here and there, twinkling vibrantly. There was a small bite of coldness to the air, but there was a warm breeze sweeping through the sleeping konoha, barely rustling the loose leaves of a small controlled forest inside its walls.

A lone tree rested atop a small mound of a hill, its soft pink petals reflecting as a sort of lavender in the moonlight. Upon one of its long, thick branches a lone figure sat.

Uchiha Sasuke had one of his knees bent up, allowing his upper arm to rest lightly on it, and leaving the rest of his arm to dangle. His other leg freely hung off the tree, and his back was resting against the main trunk of the tree. His stoic, emotionless face remained heightened by the moonlight, his dark-raven hair appearing almost a rich purple, his deep obsidian eyes dark as the night. He lifted his head up further, his graze transitioned to the large moon, the wind tickled at his skin, slightly rusting his locks of hair and clothing he was adorned in.

He would go to this exact spot, in the console of the night, when Konoha was sleeping and the only noise slightly audible the chirping of crickets as they passed by. It was the perfect setting, often used to clear his mind of things he couldn't around other people; whether through thinking and analyzing or physical training. There were alot of things in his life that were out of control, but if there was at least one thing he made sure he could control, it would be his emotions. His actions around others. It was pretty much the only thing he could do, it was all he could to to push memories and thoughts to the far reaches of his mind, even if it drove him to the point of insanity.

He was forced to do that during the day. But at times in the night when he would go to this place, it was hardly possible for him, in the silence of late night, to not hear the thoughts that forever plagued his mind.

"Yo, teme." Sasuke lazily let his deep obsidian eyes transition to Naruto, who appeared at the foot of the large tree, his calm cerulean eyes fixated on him. As his blonde hair was slightly ruffled, and his countenance slightly tired, hinting to the possibilty that he had awoken from sleep not too long ago.

"Its past your bedtime, dobe." Sasuke muttered casually as he let his gaze transition back to the sky.

Naruto ignored Sasuke's comment, letting a small grin breifly grace his lips.

"Yea, actually. A great hero needs his sleep." He replied before breifly dissapearing to reaper on the same tree branch as the Uchiha. It was a farely large branch so a good amount of distance seperated the two.

"Ah." A small ghost of a grin barely touched Sasuke's lips.

"I saw somebody sitting up in a tree and I wanted to check it out, see what crazy person was up in the middle of the night, doing nothing..of course it would be you." He let out a small grunt of amusement, letting his body stance mimic that of Sasuke, his eyes as well as he stared up at the sky for a moment. "What are you doing up anyways?" As he said this, his cerulean gaze transitioned to Sasuke's who was still averted to the sky. "Wallowing in self pity or what?"

Self pity..

Sasuke continued looking up to the sky, making no indignation as to hearing Naruto's word, though with their close enough proximity it was clear he could hear.

Flashback

"Naruto doesn't even have parents to tell him what to do, that's why he's so selfish!" Sakura blabbered out. The young, naive girl thought she was winning Sasuke over, but she was so wrong. At that statement, Sakura pissed him off.

"The solitude." He muttered.

"What?" Sakura was caught back.

"You can't even begin to compare it to when your parents get mad at you." His voice was cold, monotone, void of emotion.

"What's the matter?" He could tell that she was confused. Did he care? No.

"You're annoying." He wanted to say more, but he was pretty good at holding his tongue, and didn't want to waste his time or breath.

End Flashback

She didn't know back then, what had happed to his clan. Naruto didn't know. Even know, as they heard facts, maybe even details of what had happened to the Uchiha clan, who had done it, they still knew nothing.

"Sakura-chan!" His voice sounded in a somewhat normal pitch, but his tone was slightly surprised.

Sasuke's gaze transitioned to join Naruto's as they watched the kunoichi walk up the hill towards them. Her steps were calm, but it almost seemed as if she was in a slight hurry; though, when she made it in front of the tree she seemed fine, as if she felt..safe?

"Hey Naruto, Sasuke-kun."She gave then a small smile.

"Its late." Sasuke said. It was his way of telling her she needed to go to bed. That there was no point in her being up. That he didn't approve of her missing sleep, especially as he saw her exhausted countenance starting up at them. She didn't say anything to his comment, only smile as she made her way up the tree, moving to sit in the small gap that seperated Sasuke and Naruto. Both her hands positioned themselves on the tree branch as she let her two legs dangle over its side. As she looked up to the sky, she tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, the pink color reflecting lavender in the moonlight, shared with the color of the petals adorning the tree they resided on.

"Have you two ever just taken the time to look up at the sky, and just watch the stars…" A slight smile was one her face, it almost seemed like a sad smile as her her emerald eyes transitioned upwards towards the sky.

"Yeah." Naruto started, a small grin on his face. "I always count each star for a flavor of ramen. Its pretty fun." He let out a small snicker as Sakura slightly giggled.

"You're so silly Naruto." She glanced to Naruto before throwing a quick glance to Sasuke, who hadn't spoken a word yet.

"So, why are you two out here so late?" Her small inquiry sounded the night.

"I couldn't sleep. And then I just happened to see this crazy person." He brought his hand up, letting his pointed thumb turn to the side to point as Sasuke. "Up in this tree."

"Oh." Sakura let out a small smile.

Naruto let his deep cerulean gaze travel from Sasuke to Sakura. He then breifly closed his eyes as he slightly nodded, a small release of breath, sounding amused, escaping his lips.

"Well, I'm beat, so I'm going to try and get some sleep. Tell Kakashi tomorrow to pronounce me dead, cause I won't be waking up in time for practice." He let out a large grin before jumping off the tree, landing gracefully before casually walking away.

That left Sasuke and Sakura.

There was a long moment of silence between the two, akward, welcomed.

It took another moment of that silence before Sasuke stirred, in preperation to jump of the large tree branch. Sakura quickly glanced at him before returning her gaze to the night sky.

"Do you hate me?"

It was then that Sasuke paused, letting his deep onyx orbs transition to her, emotionless, yet his small silence indicated that her inquiry was very unexpected.

"What?"

She let out a small breath through slightlty smiling lips as she lowered her head, almost shyly, letting her emerald gaze transition to the ground. After a small moment of pause she looked up to him.

"Do you hate me?"

Sasuke kept his obsidian orbs trained on her.

"Be honest...please." Her voice was casual, soft, gentle. Sasuke continued to look at her, his eyes almost squinting in speculation. Though after another small moment of silence, he answered.

Thanks for Reading.

So Readers, Loves..what do you think of the story so far? I'm thinking about it now, and i dont think the whole triangle thing i gonna work out, not for this fic...sooo dont worry..Sakura will get over it fast just like speed of light..and yea..if you're looking for a triangle love affair with Sakura, Sasuke, and Itachi, then check out my story "Behind The Smile", it's not the main part of the story, but it happenes..so yea!

I would totally love it if some people helped my get my ideas flowing out, cause this is killing me!