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Chapi 13 = what I really feel

[Inner sakura]

Then it clicked.

"Sakura I ... I"

Neji was in shock was he really going to say what he thought he was going to say, no he wouldn't let him say it.

Neji charged at Sasuke knocking him flat on his back and so mad at neji that he felt like he could rip out his heart and fed it to him, piece by piece, that was his chance to tell sakura that he liked, no loved her, but that stupid bastard got in the way.

Sakura stood there, what was Sasuke going to say? [YOU IDIOT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS GOING TO SAY, IT WAS OBVIOUS HE WAS GOING TO TELL YOU THAT HE LOVED YOU] inner sakura was screaming at sakura, her eye's opened wide, Sasuke was going to tell her how he finally felt about her, and neji stopped him, why would neji stop him [blank stare] no way neji likes me! [Why are you so slow sometimes?].

Sasuke had to tell her, he could tell that he liked sakura too, so he thought it would stop him in his tracks if he told her, then he really could feed him his heart. He laughed evilly inside his head as a grin appeared on his face.

" Sakura"

This snapped sakura out of her thoughts and knows she was looking at Sasuke again.

"I LOVE YOU," he quickly yelled, before the charging neji got him again.

Neji stood there, it was too late she knew; now all his chances of being with her were over, and she would almost defiantly choose Sasuke over him.

Sasuke grinned he was right it stopped neji in his tracks.

Sakura was shocked Sasuke actually told her how he felt after all this time of trying to get over him, Why did he do this too her, she loves him, he hates her, she finally gets over him and he tells her he loves her.

What was she going to do? Then she thought who was there for me after he left? [NEJI] her inner self screamed, it was obvious she was on neji's side, but she didn't know whom she liked more.

She collapsed onto her knees and started thinking. WHY, WHY did he always do this to her, it made her hurt so much inside and she didn't know what to do.

Sasuke's grin grew and he knew he had won. He charged at neji with chidori and sent him flying.

"NEJI" sakura screamed, she totally forgot about what Sasuke said, or that they were in the middle of a battle, she ran as fast as she could over to him to see if he was all right. He had taken a nasty blow and would probably have trouble to move for a long time.

Sasuke stood there in disbelief he tells her he loves her and what does she do, she runs over to the injured neji too help him, she risked her life running in between there battle to help him, but she never had done that for him.

Neji stared at sakura in disbelief, IN her own way it showed that she choose neji over Sasuke, he couldn't belief it, and she even did it without hesitation.

He some how managed to move his arm and hugged her with it, he brought her in closer to him and she stayed there for the longest time.

---------Back to Naruto

Naruto now running at haiaku with a fully charged Rasengan, he hit him with a direct blow and put haiaku out for the night, but to make sure that he would never hurt anyone again, he pulled out a kunai, and flung it down at his heart to kill him once and for all.

He had to go see how neji was doing with Sasuke he ran into the room only to see a huge hole in the wall, he ran through it and saw Sasuke standing there with the look of disgust and betrayal in his eyes he looked around for sakura and there she was over there by neji who looked pretty bad.

"NARUTO-KUN" Hinata actually screamed and Naruto looked over to where Hinata was and saw her safely there in the tree without a scratch, he let out a sigh of relief to see that she wasn't hurt during the happening going on out here, for some reason he felt more concerned about Hinata then he did about Sasuke, neji or even sakura.

She came out of the tree and ran over to him to check out his injuries, and then Naruto looked at Sasuke, now was his chance to finally bet Sasuke, but as he looked at the look on his face again, he thought he would be in more pain just to leave him there with sakura in neji's arm's?

That wasn't right he thought, when did that happen?

Sasuke started to make a fist, he didn't know why this happened, sakura would have always fallen head over heels if he talked to her, or if he did something nice for her, She even told him that she loved him, and always would, when he left what ever happened to that promise she made to him.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR PROMISE SAKURA" Sasuke screamed at them to break up the beautiful moment.

Sakura looked at him and then remembered

----FLASHBACK----

Sakura couldn't believe it he was finally going, and all of a sudden, she couldn't let Sasuke go away not now not ever "You can't go, I can't let you go, even if it means I have to follow you there, I LOVE YOU SASUKE-KUN AND I ALWAYS WILL" sakura said with tears running down her face. "Don't follow me unless you want to die for sure, don't waste your time sakura move on" he replied coolly, and with that he vanished.

----END OF FLASHBACK----

"My promise, you told me not to waste my time, after I went on this mission it finally clicked in to me to stop wasting my time and that's what I did, I took your advice so in the end it's all your fault for giving me that advice" sakura said looking at him.

She turned her attention to Naruto and Hinata, "we should get out of here soon" she said they both nodded and they walked over to neji to help him up.

Sasuke couldn't let them leave, he couldn't let her leave, and neji was done his only real enemy was Naruto now, and Naruto was pretty beaten up himself.

After sakura got out of his arms, and they helped him up, Sasuke charged at them. He grabbed sakura and jumped up off the ground and up into the air, he landed on a high branch in a tree right above them.

Sasuke's behaviour was irritating Sakura, before she would have been blushing so hard that a tomato looked white, but now that was different. She pushed herself out of his arms and slapped him so hard that it left a mark on his face that would last a good week.

He fell backwards in shock that sakura had slapped him. "I don't like you anymore Sasuke, you've changed the way I always wanted you to change before, but now that I don't like you I wish that you would go back to your cold-hearted self" sakura said to him and then started to climb down the tree back to the others.

Sasuke just wished he could die, he didn't care about vengeance anymore he just wanted sakura, but now that wish was far out of reach. He headed back into the house and started packing his stuff and left, he had to get out of there, be didn't want to train under Orochimaru anymore, he didn't want anything. He decided that he wanted to head back to Konoha and return to his old life.

------Back to the mission group

Naruto was helping neji walk out of there and they returned to their, there camp, that they all slept in the night before. They still had the matter of completing the mission, so sakura told Naruto and Hinata to go ahead and finish it off, she handed the map to Hinata, and they headed off after a brief rest.

Sakura was left alone with neji after that and she knew that tomorrow they should head back to Konoha.

Neji slept most of the time because he had to regain his strength, and sakura watched around for a while before going to sleep her.

"We finally found them" said a voice and walked towards sakura and neji

TBC

Well the story probably only had a couple more chapi's left, sniff sniff so draws to an end my first fanfic. Hope all you enjoy it.