A/N: Feeling dizzy…

Enter the Hero

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She was sitting alone in her small apartment ripping a Kleenex into shreds staring off into the darkness.

She was just staring, unmoving.

Every so often she would reach out for another soft Kleenexes to destroy.

It was official.

Haruno Sakura was sad… or possible disturbed.

The pink medic was sitting comfortably with her arms hugging her knees on the floor in front of her sofa. A warm light green blanket was draped around her and a bunch of different junk food items was scattered around on the floor.

Everything from chips to popcorn, pop cans to the dreaded chocolate flavored ice cream littered the pale carpet. Several sad dramatic movies and romance novels were also flung into the big heap as well.

It was official.

Haruno Sakura was sad… and currently vegging.

She had locked herself inside her newly rented apartment for 2 days straight, not coming out for anyone… Not that anyone bothered her of course. No one remembered about the poor little kunoichi, who just wasted years of her life on a mission to save the village.

Noo… Her sacrifice meant nothing.

She was nothing.

Everyone was too busy preparing for the upcoming wedding to notice the sad little kounichi who suddenly decided to lock herself in her room.

Strangely enough, the whole town was invited for the ceremony. Something she would have never expected from the Uchiha. In her eyes, he always seemed like the more reserved type than to the more open one. She always figured that he would have wanted a small wedding other then a massive one.

Oh well… It seems that Ino won that battle. 'Yea… Go girl power…' her inner self mumbled sarcastically.

She popped in the saddest movie she owned, which was about a man leaving the woman he said he loved for some other wench.

It was just perfect for her situation.

She was half way through the movie and half way through a box of cream filled chocolates when one of the worst scenes of the whole movie came up.

"I love you," the man in the film said.

"LIAR!" Sakura screamed as she threw her half eaten coconut flavored chocolate at the TV screen.

There was no need to say it.

Haruno Sakura was pathetic.

She already knew it.

She wanted to kick the shit out of the bastard actor who played the shitty so called 'prince charming' in the movie. How dare he lie to the beautiful princess…Apple? Okay, fine she didn't remember the ugly princess's name, but so what? Actions speak louder than words, and she remembered what she looked like. That is what counted most…Right?

Sakura growled out in frustration and started to pull on her hair. Sasuke never even loved her! Why was she getting so worked up?

This was so complicated.

And now she was jealous of princess…Apple…for getting her prince to actually love her, whereas Sakura couldn't even get hers to not twitch in annoyance whenever she approached.

How she envied the foolish bitch.

"I love you more than anything else in the world."

"You do?"

"Yes."

"Oh…Charming."

Sakura scoffed. She couldn't even stop herself from rolling her eyes at the piece of trash. Before she would have been awing right along with her, but now, she just pitied her.

Men lie. She learned this the hard way.

Somewhere in the story when the prince pronounced his love for the princess and where he leaves her for another woman, she started to drift off into a heavy snooze. Her head lazily rolled back onto the many plush pillows she had around her and she closed her eyes.

She awoke moments later by an irritating banging noise.

"Rapp."

"Rapp."

"Rapp."

Someone was at the door.

She cursed them and reached for the remote. She turned up the volume and rolled over. The banging noise didn't stop and she wasn't going to get the door. I mean…Duh… She was vegging. There was no way in hell she was going to stop vegging to open the door for an unwelcome guest.

She was nice, but she wasn't that nice.

The volume was soon cranked up to the maximum. The only problem with this was that the noise was making her ears hurt. After a few minutes she couldn't take it any longer and turned the volume to mute. She smiled victoriously when the banging stopped.

The idiot finally left.

She yawned and covered herself with the blanket. "Hopefully it wasn't anything important," she mumbled in half sleep.

It startled her when she heard a noise in the other room. It sounded just like the sound of breaking glass. She didn't pay too much attention to it. She had left some ice cream out and she figured that it had probably just slid off the counter because of all the melting.

'Ew.' She cringed at the thought of the nasty warm pile of ooze that was waiting for her to clean up.

There were no worries until she thought she heard the sounds of someone trying to force their way inside her window… Realization began to sink in and she realized that… OH MY GOD… She was being robbed!

She quickly tried to hide herself among all the pillows. Needless to say, she wasn't very smart.

(This is what 2 days of constant junk food digesting can do to you.)

She heard footsteps entering the living room and she crouched as low as she could behind the couch hoping that the night prowler wouldn't see her.

She wanted to remain hidden.

"Heh, are you always so dimwitted Haruno?" A deep voice chuckled at her.

Maybe she did get hers in the end…

"Neji?" She gasped. "What are you doing here?" She slowly got out from her squatting position.

He did not speak or answer. He merely stared. He could not believe that she was reduced to living like this…

Her stunned expression soon turned to an angered one. "Who the hell do you think you are?" She glared at him. "What makes you think that you can just barge inside a young woman's apartment in the dead of night?" She didn't even wait for an answer. "You nearly scared me half to death! I thought you were a burglar!" She narrowed her eyes and shot him an accusing stare. "Why the hell are you -?"

He silenced her with one hand and started to slowly walk towards her.

He was getting closer and closer.

Now he was almost a few inches in front of her…and he wasn't stopping. Closer and closer he came, she could see his face clearly now, he was a bit pale and he showed no signs of stopping his advance any time soon. He smirked when he saw her start to pinch her arm – obviously she thought that he was just some sort of hallucination she was having – a very bad dream.

He will show her that she is wrong.

He leaned in and his lips brushed past her ears. He leisurely reached his hand out and carefully tucked of strand of her untidy hair neatly behind her ears.

She let out a silent sigh. She really thought that he was about to kiss her.

"I believe I am Neji." He said huskily into her ear. "And I also believe that you didn't seem to care as much the last time I showed up in your room."

She turned beat red at his words and started stammering.

"I… I… I…Never mind about that!" She screamed. "You still aren't suppose -"

He interrupted her by leaning in and kissing her slowly and gently.

She was lost in the kiss, but somehow her mind knocked some sense into her. She hurriedly broke out of the kiss and slid right onto her couch and picked up a pillow to separate any space between them.

"I was worried about you."

Small tears slid down her face.

"I'm sorry." He bowed his head. "I shouldn't have done that."

It angered her that he was apologizing.

He closed in on her and made a move to wipe the tear off her face when she slapped his hand away.

"Leave me alone." She hissed.

"Sakura" he said still moving in.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" she cried.

He stopped in his tracks and slowly removed his hand from her face.

She hugged the pillow closer to her chest.

"I see… I will leave you some time to think. I will perhaps see you later?" he inquired.

She nodded and he backed away from the woman in front of him.

"What you are… doing…" He waved his hand around her apartment to show her the mess. "It is not healthy for you. You should take a shower and eat a proper meal." He looked pointly at the empty boxes of ice-cream cakes near the TV.

She looked up at him and nodded. " Alright… I think I'm done vegging now."

He fixed her a crucial stare, as if he thought she was crazy. Obviously he had no idea what 'vegging' meant.

(Vegging – the action you do in the period of time you take to get over someone. … My definition of vegging… Not even 100 percent sure vegging is a word…But… Just go with it.)

He made up his mind. He was going to comfort the crying maiden in front of him. He was going to make her see that the Uchiha wasn't the only man for her.

She didn't have to fall.

He was also there, waiting to catch her.

"…Sakura," the man said hesitantly.

She looked up, and her tears quieted.

"I should have told you this when I first met you."

He paused for a moment and stared at her angelic face, her lovely eyelashes fluttered with each blink. She gently bit her lower lip, staring right back at him.

"What is it Hyuuga?" She said this coldly, breaking him from his thoughts.

He let out a deep sigh and knelt down to take her hands into his. Her attention was totally focused on him. The next few words out of his mouth were spoken with his deepest sympathy and littered with pity.

She looked up at him with weepy eyes.

"Every single time your heart tries to heal its' self, and it has tried so hard, he comes and breaks it a little more. It's not worth it… Let him go…" He spoke slowly and cautionary, stopping in between to show that he meant ever-single word.

Her expression, if possible, fell even more. She was falling – and no one was there to catch her.

"I can't."

"Why is that?"

"Because I already did."

He glanced at her for a moment, as if he was judging her.

"Then why are you crying?" He said before carefully sitting next to her, trying to comfort the poor broken hearted women.

This was so unlike him.

The silence lasted for what seemed like forever until finally a whisper was heard.

"I don't know…"

He let out an irritated sigh. He wanted to just force the foolish woman to understand. Uchiha did not love her. He did! Why did she have to make this so confusing?

"He enjoys seeing your pained face every day, he likes seeing you suffer. It's almost like he wants to hurt you. He is not worth it anymore… Just leave him be. He does not love you." He spoke with harshness and brutality, his voice trying to stuff any and all sense of reason into her brain.

He paused and waited for the broken hearted woman's response.

No doubt, it would not be a good one.

She didn't know why, but those few words hurt her deeply. She felt her heart ache unimaginably. Her hand subconsciously clutched her chest. Her hand found the spot where her heart was to be found and she mentally shut her eyes.

She needed a moment to think. His words hurt – and they hurt deep. It was like a knife scraping through butter - she was being spread around, toyed with, and what made it worst was that she allowed it to happen.

"Sakura… Let him go."

Her eyebrows arched. Her expression was one of total confusion. "I love him… I always will. No matter what."

He sighed, "I know…"

The silence rang on for what seemed like hours and she slowly rested her head on his shoulder.

"I have no idea what to do anymore," she whispered into the dark. "I came back wanting something that I now know I can never have."

Out of everything that had happened she did still know one thing for sure – one thing that she would never be able to tell him. Although she really did love him, a part of her heart was still dedicated to him. He would always be there, even if he didn't know it…for he also held a small part of her heart.

'I'm still in love with you. I think I always was and I always will.'

'I will never forget you.'

'You mean too much to me.'

I love you too… Neji-kun…

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"I know how you feel…" A low murmur answered.

They sat together for hours, reminiscing about the good old days.

A/N: I'm sad… I just recently found out that one of my friends was diagnosed with cancer. I went to visit a few of times and my heart almost broke at the sight of her. I just want to go into a corner and cry… I'm such a bad friend, I feel bad that I didn't notice anything. She is one of the nicest people on earth and I cannot believe that this is happening to her. She had so many surgeries and blood transfusions and so many things done to her already. I'm scared for her. Yesterday I learned that she needs a bone marrow transplant, which is really hard to get.

I have hope.

I am praying.

I love you my little PP.

This story shall be dedicated to you and your increasing health. You're an amazing person with a kind heart. Even though you will probably never read this, I really do love you. You are my PP, and I am glad I met you and that I am your friend.

Get Well Soon.

Love M.

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