The next day, Sasuke woke up early in the morning. He had to get a good training... he hadn't ever since he killed Itachi. He was actually quite surprised with himself. He never had a day gone without training before. Never ever. He phoned up Naruto and Sakura and told them to meet him near the clearing in half an hour.

Neither of them had changed too much. He hadn't either, come to think of it. he was still the same cold hearted on the outside, warm if you really try to dig in, Sasuke. Naruto has developed strength wise and strategically wise, but he was still the same caring, orange suited baka. And Sakura... well Sakura was still weak, still smart, and still after Sasuke. She had improved a lot over the 8 years, of course, but she was still weak compared to a chuunin. She hadn't passed the Jounin exam like Sasuke and Naruto.

Half an hour later, Naruto and Sasuke were practicing their taijutso, while Sakura was running. Two hours later they switched: Sasuke was running, while Naruto and Sakura were practicing taijutso. And then the final switch: Sasuke and Sakura taijutso, and Naruto running. 6 hours passed, it was already noon. About now they'd usually either meditate or skip the meditation and go to some restaurant (they took turns deciding which, so every three days they ended up eating ramen. god, how Sasuke hated ramen...). But now was their first training together in a long time, and even though it was Tuesday and everything, when they looked back Naruto was the last one to pick. So now it was Sakura's turn, and she took them to a pizza place (with a huge salad bar. God, how Sakura hated salad bars... but if she ever wanted to win Sasuke's heart... and she HAD heard a rumor lately saying he's interested in restoring his clan...)

Sasuke had a lot of fun chatting around with Naruto and Sakura. He usually acted like he was bored or like he didn't care in these occasions, but he really loved those lunches. When he looked at the big pizza shaped clock he was shocked to find it was already 2:30 in the afternoon... 'GAHHH! I spent 2 and a half hours on these two morons? Shit I gotta ruuuuunnnn!!!'

"Sorry guys," he said calmly, slowly, and without a slight emotion in his words "but you guys are terribly boring... I think I'll just go home now... I've got other business to attend to." He left the pizza shop and let a smile creep up his face. Both Naruto and Sakura knew he was kidding about them being boring... they knew him too well. But the last part should have kept Sakura interested... other business... he liked to say stuff like that, to touch her sensitive points- what she didn't know about him. It was like a game to him. Usually he'd send a replication one way and hide himself to see if she follows. Amusingly enough, she usually did. but this time he wasn't kidding- if he didn't hurry, he might be late. Seeing as he WAS living in his manor right now, at least he didn't have to take the long path. he sent a replication the other direction, something for Sakura to follow. He actually felt bad sometimes about doing this to her... he liked her, actually, he had a slight hatred for everyone in his fan club, but not her. He supposed that after 8 years she was starting to grow on him. But he couldn't restore his clan with her. She just won't do. As much as he liked her and as a great mom she probably would be there was just something too fake about her.

Besides, she wasn't strong enough. And the Uchiha clan had to be the strongest.

It was 3:30 and he was still at the shop, buying wine. 'Damn it Damn it Damn it! I'm supposed to be at the gate of the Hyuuga Manor by now!! I'M GODDAMN FRIGGIN LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' he said. He picked his wine carefully, and slowly went to pay.

"Hello Sasuke." A voice had said. It seemed familiar.

"Hello." He replied, then looked up. Ach. It was just that Ronpoa girl. Wait a minute... why did he remember her name? "What do you want?" he asked her coolly.

"Well, it's more like what do YOU want, Sasuke-kun." Her voice was teasing. "you're the one who came up to me this time, not me to you."

'Damn it, she's right. She's the cashier... wait a minute... she said she liked me yesterday, no? maybe I can squirt a little sale out of her... just for the fun of it... no, I'm late... besides, I don't want to spend more time with her...'

"Right." He said, handing her the money "Whatever." And with that he left the store.

Ronpoa chuckled. 'Ahhh... Sasuke Kun... tsk tsk tsk...'

It was already 3:45 and Sasuke just came to the gate. Not good, not good! It took him usually about 20 minutes to get through all of the Hyuuga's... He passed through the guards and asked around where Hiashi is. He was never at the same room at the same time as the previous day, it seemed. When he asked someone why they said that it was to not give spies an easy job. He was surprised to see that it only took him 10 minutes, since all the Hyuuga's knew him already and he didn't come by any shy ones or ones unwilling to help today. So far, so good.

He waited 5 minutes outside of the room Hiashi was supposed to be in and then entered, at 4:00 PM exactly. Hiashi seemed to be expecting him (duh).

"No." he said, taking the wine.

"Please, Hiashi-Sama, Listen to me." He tried to keep his cool, and he tried to remember what Neji had said yesterday. "I'll take any Hyuuga. The weakest one, a useless Hyuuga. A Hyuuga that will do no good to the family. A Hyuuga that you want to get rid of. Anyone would do."

"I have no Hyuuga to spare." Hiashi said automatically. Then again... "Then again... maybe I have someone for you... yes... I think I do... come back tomorrow, this time. I'll be in the big hall. Someone will be waiting at the gate to take you there... even though I think you've gotten to learn you're way around the place rather well, no?"

"Thank you. I'll be back here tomorrow." Sasuke said and left.

He went back home, and took out another bowl of instant ramen. 'God, how I hate ramen...' he thought to himself, as he poured milk into a glass. He was halfway through the sticky ramen when he heard a knock on the door. 'I hope it's not that Ronpoa girl... though any excuse to get away from this ramen is good...' he said, took a gulp of milk, and quietly "Come in".

He had no idea how she heard him, but Ronpoa came in.

"You again. What do you want tonight?"

"Just to check up on you. You don't look like you're enjoying that ramen of yours too much..."

"Checking up on me? What are you, my babysitter?"

"Hai." Sasuke stared at her. That was a rhetorical question, damn it!

"Explain."

"Tsunade Sama sent me to see what's keeping you up so much and to try and help you with it. so I've been spying on you for the last couple of days. Nice taijutso, by the way, and you run like a girl."

"So why have you been burdening me instead of actually helping me, if that's what you're hired to do?"

"What can I already do?"

"Firstly off, help me finish the ramen stock Naruto gave me for my birthday. Here, have a bowl." He said, giving her one. He couldn't believe he was inviting her to stay for dinner, but it was kind of lonely all alone in the Uchiha Manor and he did have way too much ramen. He gave her the milk, and was surprised to see her pouring water into the ramen.

"You put water in it?" he asked, terribly shocked, but trying not to show it.

"You mean you've been eating it with milk all this time? Y-U-C-K!! It's not kosher, anyway..." she said, biting off into her ramen.

Sasuke raised his eyebrow. They continued the meal silently. At the end of the meal Ronpoa washed the dishes and Sasuke told her to leave when she's finished, and with that went to sleep. He had a long day ahead of him.

He had the usual nightmare about Itachi killing their family. He went down to get a bit of water.

'Why is that nightmare still there?' Sasuke thought. 'I killed Itachi. I got my revenge.'

'No...' another voice, at the back of his head told him 'You didn't kill Itachi. Itachi killed himself. And now you'll never get you're revenge.'

'So?' he argued 'Itachi is dead. Isn't that enough?'

'No, it isn't... You wanted to torture him. You wanted to cause him equal pain to the pain he caused you.'

'Shikata ga nay (it cannot be helped). I didn't get my revenge, if so, and I never will, and I wasted all my life on trying to achieve something that I will now never achieve. Is that what you're saying?'

'Not exactly... you do have that other goal of yours. Restoring your clan, nay? I say, put all of yourself into it. Marry someone you love, not someone that Hiashi-baka can spare.'

'Like who? Sakura? My clan will never be strong that way.'

'Yeah... you're right... but it doesn't have to be some Hyuuga leftover! Think about it, if Hiashi can spare her, she can't be THAT much stronger than Sakura...'

'Perhaps, but the combination of sharingan and byakugan can't be a bad one, besides, even if she is weaker than Sakura, supposing something like that is possible, she still has genetics... people inherit stuff from their grand parents and uncles, don't they?'

'Yeah... but still... you won't love her, she won't love you, what will ya do?'

'I'll figure it out when I get to it.'

about now Sasuke realized he just had a conversation with himself, shivered, and went back to bed. He woke up do to nightmares three more times.

Ronpoa, who was sitting outside the window, frowned to herself. Four times he woke up in one night... not good. She'll have to report this to the Kazekage.

Hello all my readers! Thanks for the replies and I hope I satisfied everyones comments!

Sorry for the 4 day wait (though it's not long) I was on vacation... I plan to update this very often, don't worry... even though schools starting, shouldn't get in my way too much.

I'm sorry that the first chapter is so short... I think I'll edit it more later on... maybe make the fight longer, def add some more of itachi's feelings... :P

Sorry if the story is moving a little slowly I don't want to rush Hinata in cuz she just won't fit in right now, I think I need to give her time to show up. She definitely will have a major role here cuz I love the pairing SasuHina. They're a perfect match, and this is my contribute to the sasuhina fans and writers. Anyway, I think in later chapters the POV will switch around between Sasuke and Hinata.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter!!!