Chapter 18 - Don't Forget Who You Are

Sakura heads back to Sasuke's house and hesitates as she goes to knock on the door, but before her fist can touch the smooth surface of the wood, the door opens and she is just stood there for a second with her fist raised in the air. She smiles slightly and lowers her hand "heh Sasuke hi..." she says softly. Sasuke stands still in the doorway with his jacket on looking at her with an annoyed look on his face,

"Sakura...I was just going to look for you, where have you been?" he looks at her intently.

"Oh um, I was just out, you know to spend some alone time to clear my head and now I'm back" she looks at him. He nods not saying anything and moves aside to let her in, she softly brushes past him walking into the house. As Sasuke steps in behind her the door slams shut. She jumps slightly and walks over to the couch sitting down; Sasuke stands in front of her. Slowly looking up to face him she sighs "Sasuke,I came to warn you you're in danger and so is the village" He frowns,

"why tell me? What am I supposed to do? Why don't you go get Naruto or someone to help" he says without any emotion.

"You know I can't, no one else apart from you and Tsunade and Gaara for some reason know that I am back" she frowns looking at him. Sasuke folds his arms,

"Then I'll go get some ANBU" Sakura stands up angrily,

"Have you even listened to a word I said?! You don't get it do you? You are the one who also needs saving, there's no time we have to go now. Sasuke you used to care about this village about people and if all you do is think about revenge then there will be no saving you, I want to help, to get you back to your old self again, the true hero" Sasuke looks at her blankly and simply says,

"You're wrong" She shakes her head,

"We have to go now" she moves to walk around him and he harshly grabs her wrist.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going? You think I'm letting you go! I lost you once, I'm not going to lose you again, no you're staying here" he glares at her. She turns to face him,

"No! You don't get a choice in this Sasuke, I'm going whether you like it or not, because I still care about this village even if you don't, so I'm gonna fight for it and for the people in it, besides as much as you don't want to admit it, you need me Sasuke, I'm all you got so we're gonna defeat this thing together! Now are you with me?!" she harshly pulls out of his grasp and walks out.

Sasuke frowns and quickly follows her "how do you know all this?"

"I just do ok, now come on there's not a lot of time left, this thing that shall destroy the leaf village is also designed to destroy the Last Uchiha...that would be you Sasuke" she looks at him seriously. He looks back at her shocked and nods serious now. They continue on walking and reach there location heading into the base that the genin hide in where there is an attack on the village. They walk along the corridors and Sasuke frowns,

"Just so you know I'm taking a lot on faith here" he shakes his head continuing to walk. They step inside the big area and the walls behind them seal up making any means of escape impossible. They look around quickly and a figure approaches the both of them, as it comes into light his face is shown in full view clearly visible. Sasuke clenches his fists and grits his teeth "Itachi..."

So thought I'd leave you on a cliff hanger there even though not much point as the next chapter is already up to read lol!