Enjoy!!!! –Ashlee

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It was about midnight at Konoha. Everyone was asleep in their beds, dreaming. Well, everyone except a certain pink-haired girl. She was walking down the road that lead out of the village. You could hear her footsteps walking down that brick road. Which brought horrible memories back for her.

She was sixteen years old. Ever since he left her, she's been in difficult training. She was always sad; putting on a fake smile for everyone. No one noticed….. except for Kakashi and Tsunade. They were like her parents, taking care of her. Her real parents died about a year after he left. Her heart broke into a million pieces that night. She felt so alone and abandoned. Though she had Naruto, Kakashi and Tsunade….. she never felt incomplete without her parents…… she felt the same way about him.

She kept walking, not looking back once. She felt like she needed to do this. She never really could get it through her head that Sasuke was gone. She had to go find him…. He was still out there some where. She kept walking until she came to a stop. Someone was there standing in front of her.

It was Kakashi.

"Sakura….." He started off.

"Why are you doing this….?" He asked while looking at her intently.

"……Kakashi-sensei….. please let me do this." She said looking at the ground.

"Why are you going to look for someone who is already dead?" Sakura's head shot up.

"He's not dead!" She said yelling at him with sad eyes. He could see through her fake impressions to people.

"I know you loved him Sakura, but- Sakura interrupted him.

"I still love him! Nothing will ever change how I feel about him!" She said while crying. "He's not dead! I'm going to find him! And I'll bring him back! If I don't find him than I'll be breaking my promise!!!" She yelled at him, while sobbing.

"What promise?" He asked her while feeling sad for her.

"I made a promise after Sasuke-kun left." She said starting to not cry as much as she had.

"I promised that I would save them both this time! I promised that I would be the one to save them both! They would be the ones that stood behind me this time, while I fought to save there lives!!! Even if it costs me mine!!!" She said sobbing again.

"……." Kakashi was staring at her in amazement.

"I want to show them that I'm strong! I want to show them that I'm not that weak, innocent, twelve year old girl that couldn't do anything right! I want to be team seven again! I want to be with both of my best friends again!!" She said while rapping her arms around herself.

"……." Kakashi couldn't reply. He was too amazed. This girl's dream is just to protect her friends and show them how strong of a girl she turned out to be? She was truly amazing.

"Alright." Sakura lifted her head up to look at him.

"I'll let you go look for him…..but if you can't find him within a year, you are to come back….. understood?" Kakashi said. Sakura ran up to him and hugged him.

"Arigato, Kakashi sensei." He hugged her back.

"You always were like an Otou to me, Kakashi-sensei." She said while letting go. Kakashi smiled underneath his mask. Then he had a straight face again.

"Come back safe, alright?" She smiled then nodded. He put his hand on top of her head.

"Just to let you know, you are a strong, beautiful girl who cares deeply about her friends….. you have true strength Sakura." She smiled again.

"Arigato, Kakashi-sensei." Sakura said. Kakashi looked back at the village.

"Well, you better get going." He started. She nodded in response.

"Tell Naruto not to worry about me, ok?" She said while smiling back at him.

"Of course." He said back.

"Good-bye Kakashi-sensei." With that she took off.

Kakashi stared at where she disappeared. He couldn't get over how much his student has grown. When he first met her, she was a twelve year old girl who only thought of how she looked and Sasuke. Now she is a sixteen year old girl who would do anything to save her two best friends.

"Good luck, Sakura." With that he pulled out his green book, Naruto had given him and walked back into the village.

"Hmm, hmm." You could hear Kakashi laugh quietly to himself while walking back. Perv.

Sakura was jumping from tree to tree heading away from the village. She had a determined look in her eye while looking at two imaginary illusions of Sasuke and Naruto jumping from tree to tree a head of her.

'I swear I'll find you Sasuke-kun, and once I do, we'll be team seven again. I swear; that I, Sakura Haruno, will be the one to save you both this time!' she thought to herself while disappearing into the shadows of the forest.

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Me: Did you guys like that?

Lee: It was very youthful!!!

Me: Ummm…. Thank you?

Lee: You are very welcome!!

Me: Anyway, sorry this chapter was so short, but the next one will be longer.

Lee: Keep your promise! It is very youthful!!

Me: I will, I will. My next chapter will be called, 'Finding Sasuke-kun!'

Lee: Very youthful!!

Me: …….ok……well bye!!!

Lee: By Ashlee's very youthful readers!!!

Me: …….yeah, what he said.