the meeting

Sasuke sneered in disgust as his eyes traced over the two bodies standing in the doorway, water dripping off of them and pooling at their feet. "You're suppose to take trash out," he said, directing his comment to his roommate, "not bring it inside."

His overly blonde roommate pouted and shook his head, blonde hair flopping all around and causing water to fly off him and hit Sasuke and anger him even more, "Don't be like that, teme." Naruto threw his arm around the shoulder of the android standing next to him, shaking it a bit. "I couldn't just leave her out there! She would have froze to death!"

Sasuke glanced at the object standing next to Naruto, eyes roaming over the being with thinly veiled rage. It was easy to tell that it was suppose to be built in the image of a female, it's curves soft and feminine. It's head was bowed low and keeping the contents of its face hidden behind a curtain of thick and unnatural pastel pink hair, it's skin a pale against the brightly colored hair which in turn caused Sasuke to questions the design of it's creator.

"If their kind could die so easily it would be a blessing." Sasuke didn't stay long enough to see the anger marring his friends face, didn't see the way it's shoulders subtly slumped. Sasuke wouldn't know what hit him when she turned her beautiful eyes on him, when she smiled for the first time because of him. She was destruction on two legs and nobody would ever see it because they would be distracted by her beauty, and that was truly terrifying.

her name

Naruto sat on the hunches of his feet, elbows resting on his knee's as he gazed at the still android. Her legs were bent awkwardly at her sides, her butt flat against the ground, hands resting limply in her lap with her head lowered. After countless time of the android running into obvious objects Naruto had taken the initiative to braid her long pink hair for her, moving the heavy strands from her face so she could see more clearly.

Naruto hadn't been ready to see her steal face so clearly.

"You need a name," he stated as he fell back on his butt, legs kicking out from underneath him. She looked up at him, green eyes taking in far more than any human eyes could, head tilted understandingly to the side. Naruto laughed and leaned forward, "Do you already have a name?" She shook her head and Naruto nodded. "Do you have a name you want?" She shook her head again and Naruto couldn't help but laugh at that. He had been told that most androids only had a want for a name but this android wanted for nothing, as far as Naruto could see.

Naruto's smile softened as he titled his head in answer to her body language, leaning forward his smile widened. He had the perfect name for her! "How about Sakura?" He asked with a knowing smile.

Then he lost his breath, the air taken from his lungs in away that wasn't unlike having a heavy weight on your chest. He hadn't known someone could smile so beautifully.

learning to read

Kakashi laughed as the pinked haired android leaned in closer, green eyes wide as she looked over the book held in his hands. "Have you read this before?" He questioned with a raised eyebrow, his lone eye crinkling at the corner as he smiled behind the tight face mask he wore.

Sakura shook her head before her green eyes darted back to the book for a split second, then turning back to his perfect masked face with quizzical curiosity. A thought struck the martial arts teacher and he looked down at her, "Can you read?" He watched as a beautiful blush dusted across her cheeks and she shook her head in reply. "Do you wanna learn?" He saw surprise enter her green eyes, the most emotion he had seen yet. Sakura nodded her head repeatedly, a small smile playing on her lips.

Smiling the teacher nodded his head, "I'll teach you." He knew he was offering to teacher more for him to be closer to her than for her to actually learn anything.

unable to speak

"Why don't you talk, Ugly?" Sai inquired with a tilt of his head, not unlike the silent android.

Sakura lifted her head up, baring her neck to him as she tapped the middle of her throat, without words telling him that she was broken. "Was your voice regulator broken?" She nodded her head and he frowned. "How?" He had noticed the emotions she had been displaying recently, watched as a simple question from him dashed those emotions back into whatever dark corner she had been keeping them locked away in. An android with emotion was a rare thing but not impossible, an android capable of controlling those emotions was almost unheard of but no impossible.

She shook her head and looked away, the dismissal hurting Sai more than he could understand. "I'm sorry," he then stated honestly reaching out hesitantly before placing a hand on her shoulder. He watched as her body tensed and then relaxed, she moved to cup the hand and looking at him over her shoulder giving him a reassuring smile. Even without a voice Sai found himself getting more and more caught up in her.

Sai wondered if the reason she had broken parts was because of her previous owner. Sai wasn't a creator of androids but he knew enough to know that androids loved their creators, in a way that was equivalent to loving a God. Had Sakura loved her creator so? Naruto had told Sai of when he found Sakura and it was nothing short of sounding like she had been abandoned. Sai's heart hurt for the female sitting in front of him, the one who couldn't speak.

strength

Pink hair was bellowing crazily in the wind, whipping and contorting around her face as it accentuated the strong emotion of anger marring her delicate features. She stood like a brick wall in front of the humans behind her, the people who had once shielded her. It was time for Sakura to stop acting weak, it was Sakura's turn to be strong and strength had always been her specialty.

"Why do you protect those who shame you?" The automation questioned with a monotonous voice, confused with the turnout of the female androids emotions. "You fight against someone you know you will lose against? Why? For those humans?"

Sasuke had never seen something so beautiful, so fierce. It had taken him time to warm up to Sakura, taken time for him to fall in love with the girl his friend had drug into their house as they dripped in the entryway of the door. But he had and along with his friends and family risked his life to protect her, to keep her with them at all costs. Now she stood in front of the ones who had sought to protect her, hands clenched into fist and looking more like a war goddess than a thrown away android.

Naruto had known he loved Sakura since the moment he had found her, rain pouring down her thin form as she stared at people running and ducking into buildings to find cover. Naruto had seen the kindness in her eyes, in her body language, as she allowed humans to treat her like trash without doing anything back. Naruto doubted he had ever loved anyone up until he met her.

It didn't take long for Kakashi to get attached to the robot, took him even less time to fall head over heels for her. He had been sneaky in his way of manipulating her time, stealing her away from the kids he had had a hand in raising. She had never said a word to him, any of them for that fact, but she had looked at him as if he was more than just someone to use as leverage. Sakura had looked at him for him without any hidden intentions.

Sai had first fallen in love with the voice she didn't have, then he fell in love with the emotions in the eyes she couldn't control, he fell in love with the kindness in the heart she didn't have, then he fell in love with the beauty she had been made to have. Now he was in love with the strength he could see in her back, in the way she used her small body to block those who had given a damn about her. He was in love with everything about her.

Her voice came out broken to all the ears around, saying a single word that would stick with them long after the war was over.