Author's note:- Hey there! I'm back with a new chapter.

Thankyou for your reviews:-

Denaly16789
dieinhappiness- that's a real cool penname.
Umaficwriter- Just saw the music video and lol, your right! The feels!
Kathlinne- It would follow the cannon storyline.
Sophrosine
Arti
Skillet
Uchiha misaki
thirteenchrysanthemums- your review made my day!
Maylss64 and all the anonymous reviewers.

Also, English isn't my native language so forgive me if this read is a little funny and do leave a review, it did really encourage me! I appreciate constructive criticism.

Disclaimer:- I do not own Naruto!

There's a hell in hello,
good in goodbye,
lie in believe,
over in lover,
end in friend and an if in life.

Chapter-2

The night before the wedding

Beads of sweat rolled over his forehead as his breaths became erratic.

Sakura's hands that were clutching onto the kunai were shaking with indecisiveness. Accumulating chakra into his hands, he twisted his body, his one hand manacled her wrists and pressed them over her head and his other hand gripped at her throat. He squeezed hard as she gasped to breathe, her eyes dulling, losing their light.

Thrashing his legs, he woke up timorously. As he was resurfacing from his nightmare gasping for air, he sat up bolt uptight but the unbearably pounding headache he suffered from suddenly, followed by unexplainable loud ringing in his ears, forced him to fall back into horizontal position.

He raised his arm, running his fingers into his hair as he calmed down. Every now and then, the painful memories from his past would haunt him, berating him of his reprehensible manoeuvres towards the person who loved him the most, the one he always anguished.

Unable to go back to sleep, he woke up and started walking aimlessly away from the compound, his feet and distressed mind leading him away from the walls of the village where he felt restless and spasmodic. Tomorrow was his wedding, yet here he was strolling past the nearby village as most vendors were closing their shops. The streets were almost empty, just being bypassed by two or three men. A part of him felt more at peace with being outside alone with the moon as his sole companion.

He had done wrong to a lot of people, be it friends or acquaintances in his lust for a misguided revenge and false vengeance. Being accepted by Naruto and Kakashi; loved by Sakura felt wrong as the darkness of his past mistakes besieged to hunt him on most nights. Thinking of Sakura he doesn't know whether he is greatful for her love or bitter. Bitter because she is wasting her time on the likes of him.

He sat down next to tree, stretching his legs as his raven hue eyes glanced at the solitary moon that was not accompanied by any starts tonight. Feeling poetic, he discerned the two of them to be in the same boat. As he closed his eyes, his mind couldn't help but trouble him from notions of regrets.

there were so many regrets he had in his lifetime raging from not savouring the delicious feasts of his mother to being unable to comprehend Itachi's sacrifice and remittal to the village. Not being a better friend to Naruto to betraying the trust Kakashi held in him but when it came to Sakura, he was always conflicted. He truly didn't deserve her, never had. A part of his heart had always desired her to find happiness with someone who was completely whole, who didn't have his past enslaving his present and who's not a prisioner of his own mind; that seeks confinement from the brighter things in life.

He barred his teeth tightly as his hands unseemingly without realization clutched hardly till his knuckles turned white. He felt his cheeks become wet as uninvited tears furiously leaked out of his eyes.

Why, why was he crying? Hadn't he mastered the art of being indifferent and phlegmatic? So how come he was breaking so easily, to think he had languished most of his heart with the remains of his family was perhaps wrong, after all whatever was left beat solely for her.

He in all has always been undemonstrative of his feelings for her but he was never dismissive nor callous in regards to her being. He loved her in a way that was not solely defined by romance but rather encompassed by it. He loved her not as his lover but as her, inspite of all the parameters set up by society for conventional lovers.

He sighed as he felt a potential massive migraine coming up, he needs to go to his compound soon, after all the wedding is tomorrow...

Just as he was about to get up, he felt a familiar presence. Turning his head slightly to face the intruder, he acknowledged the omnipresent menace.

"Naruto"

"Ahh, teme took you long enough to notice my presence. Getting rusty,are we?"

"hnnn"

The merry smile from the blonde's face was replaced by a stern expression. "Sasuke, tomorrow is your wedding, shouldn't you be at home?"

It was always funny how he knew something was up with him. Berating him slightly, Sasuke counter questioned, "Shouldn't you be with your newly wedded wife?"

"Her name's Hinata, about time you start remembering it, teme." Naruto gave him a disapproving look.

Walking towards him with a light pace, he patted Sasuke's shoulder lightly. "Stop doubting yourself, if Sakura-chan wanted to be happy with someone else, she wouldn't have professed her love to you all this time right. For her, its only you."

Sasuke frowned; the kyuubi holder was once again meddling into his business. Alas, he knew better than to resist his discretions now. "How can you be sure that I, a former traitor and missing-nin can keep her happy?"

He gave him a goofy grin as he teased lightly, "simply because it's you, idiot. Believe it or not our sakura-chan is not the brightest cookie in the jar, considering she could have gotten me dattebayo!"

"Dobe." Sasuke sighed shaking his head.

"Just kidding, though seriously when me and Hinata started our relationship, I kinda wondered why she even liked me? Considering I had been a tad-bit dense and indifferent to her but in the end it all worked out."

"That's your advice, that it would work out?" Sasuke questioned raising his eyebrows.

"hey, I'm the future hokage, not some love adviser..." Naruto muttered embarrassed, "basically instead of worrying about all that can go wrong, just think of all that can go all right too and that chance would be worth it." Naruto smiled and continued," Sakura-chan has believed in you all this time right? About time you start to believe in the two of you as well."

Sasuke turned away, not wanting to show his friend the myriad of emotions that bypassed him. He took a deep breath as a resolve found its way in him, streaming all the negativity away. The dobe is certainly right, about time he starts believing in them too.

He would never doubt himself when it comes to her again.