Here's chapter 11! Hope you like it. Enjoy!

Stay With Me

Chapter Eleven: Promise

About a month had passed and Sakura had completely healed from her injuries. She was now perfect on her feet. However, Sasuke refused to let her move out and live alone in her apartment say it was to dangerous. Sakura knew there was more to it then that but she didn't question Sasuke about it since the Hokage agreed with him and she secretly didn't mind living with Sasuke. It was now only a few days before Ino's bachelorette party and Shikamarus bachelor party. Sasuke and Sakura were on there way to meet team seven at the bridge. Team seven was about to be together again. When they arrived Naruto and Sai were already there. Naruto was sitting under a tree and Sai was leaning on the railing of the bridge. Sai immediately approached Sasuke and Sakura when they arrived.

"What are you doing here traitor?" Sai asked looking straight at Sasuke who just glared at him before walking right passed him. "You attitude is really starting to piss me off." Sai said annoyed.

"Sai stop it." Sakura pleaded grabbing onto his arm to calm him down but he whipped it out of Sakuras hand and knocked her over onto the ground. Sasuke turned his hear and saw Sakura on the ground which angered him.

"I don't know why I joined this stupid team in the first pla-" He ranted but was nailed straight in the face sending him about eight feet away from his original position. "Say what you want about me but don't you dare insult my teammates." Sasuke snapped at him. Sai whipped the blood off his face and Naruto helped Sakura up. Grinning like an idiot Naruto whispered to her.

"I can't believe he just defended us." Sakura nodded. Suddenly Kakashi appeared with his nose stuck in his perverted orange book.

"Yo, what's going on?" He greeted.

"Nothing." Sai responded and returned to his spot on the rail once again.

"Good lets get started then." Kakashi said and they all headed off towards the training grounds. Naruto ran ahead as usual while Sai jogged behind him leaving Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi who walked behind them saving there energy. When they arrived they all spread out in the clearing while Kakashi stood in front of them to give them there instructions. "Today I want you to practice your hand to hand combat. Sakura you'll be facing Sai and Naruto you'll be facing Sasuke. You may begin when ready." Kakashi informed them. Sasuke settled into a fighting position and faced Naruto with a smirk on his face.

"What's with the smirk, you better not hold back Sasuke." Naruto said pointing a figure at him.

"Are you going to attack or should I?" Sasuke said knowing how much it would annoy Naruto. Naruto greeted his teeth and charged at Sasuke. Throwing repetitive punches at Sasuke but Sasuke easily dodged them all. After a while Naruto began getting annoyed that he couldn't land a blow on Sasuke so he began to try doing some series of kicks to knock Sasuke off his feet put Sasuke blocked the kicked aimed at his head and garbed onto one of Naruto's hands flipping him over so he was flat onto his back. Sasuke knelt beside him and held a kunai at his neck. "Looks like I won." Sasuke said before removing the kunai and standing back up and placing his hands into his pockets. With Sakura and Sai however Sai was aiming a punch right at Sakura looking like it was going to hit but he wound up hitting noting but air and she appeared behind him and landed a punch in his back making him double over slightly but he quickly regained his balance. He ran at her again and she managed to block most of his attacks but she was getting tired pretty quickly. She had to end this battle fast. Sai jumped into the air aiming a punch at Sakura but she grabbed his wrist and flew him against a tree she approached him from behind and held a kunai at his neck once he was standing.

"I win." Sakura Said.

"Very good Sakura, Sasuke now I want you two to face each other." Kakashi instructed and the both stood about five feet in front of the other.

"Show me you're best Sakura." Sasuke told her getting into a fighting position. She nodded and looked at him with a determined look. Sakura ran at him aiming punches and kicks at him which he easily dodged. After a while he began to counter with his own. Both Sakura and Sasuke were matching each other blow for blow. After a while Sakura was breathing quite hard and her attacks were getting quit sloppy. Sasuke too showed signs of fatigue but not as much as Sakura. Each stood about six feet from the other. After Sakura caught her breath she ran at Sasuke once more aiming a punch at Sasuke's chest but he caught it with his hand. Sakura smirked when he did this and he raised an eyebrow at her. Sakura kicked him off his feet and sat on top of him straddling him with her hips but since Sasuke was physically stronger he managed to push her off and she landed in front of a tree behind him. She stood up but she found no sign of Sasuke. He appeared behind her with a kunai at her neck but she transformed into a log and appeared behind sasuke with her own kunai but he too transformed into a log.

'damn we think too much alike' Sakura thought.

Sasuke ran at Sakura throwing punches and kicks her way but he was to fast for her and she was reading to collapse any moment. He hit her in the stomach and she slammed against a tree. She spit up the blood and whipped her mouth with the back of her hand. Sasuke appeared in front of her and offered her his hand. Sakura looked up at him confused.

"You're too slow Sakura." Sasuke informed her which made her glare at him clearly mad that he had insulted her when she had tried her best. She was about to say something when Kakashi interrupted her.

"Good work Sasuke, you too Sakura you've' improved."

"but not enough." She whispered but only Sasuke heard it.

"Okay that's enough training for today." Kakashi announced and disappeared. Naruto ran off to his beloved ramen and Sasuke sat down beside Sakura thinking they were alone.

"Saku-" Sasuke began but was interrupted.

"Hey" Sai appeared in front of them looking at Sasuke. "I'd just like to apologize; the truth is I'm jealous of you. You have a relation ship with Sakura and Naruto that I could never have, I guess I was just angry at how easily they forgave you." Sai confessed.

"That's what friends do they forgive each other regardless of there mistakes." Sakura spoke. Sai was bit surprised by the comment and Sasuke was smirking.

"I'll remember that." Sai said and left Sakura and Sasuke alone. Sasuke turned towards Sakura once he was gone.

"Sakura I'm sorry" Sasuke began. Sakura shook her head at him.

"It's okay, I understand, you were just trying to tell me what I need to improve on." She told him looking at him but then turning away so that he didn't see the tears that began to form in her eyes. "I…I just can't help but still feel weak." She continued. He noticed a tear roll down cheek. She placed her head on his shoulder. He was a bit surprised but made no sign to push her off instead Sasuke pulled her closer and wrapped an arm around her while she cried.

"You're not weak." Sasuke told her. She pulled away slightly and looked at him. "Sakura I've been training my whole life to kill Itachi." He told her.

"Still…" Sakura murmured.

"If you want you can train with me." Sasuke told her.

"Really?" Sakura asked not believing her ears.

"I'll help you with your speed. I am pretty fast and since your chakera is perfect maybe you could…" Sasuke said with his voce becoming really quite near the end. Sakura giggled at him and received a glare for him. He never was someone to ask for help with his Uchiha pride.

"I'll help you with your chakera control." She told him. Sasuke smirked. He stood and offered her his hand which she gladly accepted. After they walked out of the training area Sakura appeared to be in a much better mood. "Want to go out to eat Sasuke?" Sakura asked him.

"hn." Sasuke responded. They walked into the ramen stand and noticed that Naruto was no where to be found.

"I guess Naruto is with Hinata." Sakura stated. Sasuke didn't say anything he sat down and ordered both of there meals. Sakura sat down beside him a moment later. They ate mostly in silence both preoccupied by there thoughts. They left once the sun had began to set and paid for there meals. Sasuke had his hands stuffed in his pockets with his eyes fixed on the ground and Sakura walked along side him with her hands behind her back.

"um…S-Sasuke…" Sakura began. Sasuke shifted his eyes towards her noticing her nervousness.

"Hn." He responded.

"I…I know you don't like to talk about your past, but I was wondering what your b-brother was like you know b-before he-" Sakura was cut off by Sasuke.

"Itachi." Sasuke said with hatred clearly in his voice. Sakura didn't dare look at Sasuke.

"You know what forget it I shouldn't have asked." Sakura said and quickly began to walk faster but a hand shot out and grabbed her wrist preventing her from going anywhere. "Sasuke…" Sakura whispered looking up at him. His eyes showed a mixture of pain, sadness, hatred, and love? She couldn't quite tell.

"It's okay, He was…like just like any brother I guess, I think he was the only other person in my family who really understood me, he would take care of me, he'd help me with my ninja skills sometimes when he wasn't busy. I always tried to be just as good as him. I don't know what caused him to change." Sasuke told her looking at the ground. Sakura wrapped her arms around him holding him in a tight embrace.

"You loved him didn't you? I'm sorry to bring back such memories." She whispered in his ear. Sasuke kept his arms at his sides.

"That's why I can't forgive him for what he did. He deserves to die for killing our clan when we lov-" Sasuke said but was interrupted by Sakura.

"I understand Sasuke you don't need to continue." Sakura told him pulling away and looking into his onyx black eyes.

"Sakura…" Sasuke whispered looking into her own green eyes.

"Yes Sasuke." Sakura replied not breaking there eye contact.

"Can you promise me something?" Sasuke asked her.

"Sure Sasuke, anything." She replied touching his right arm lightly. He walked towards her and held her so that his mouth was beside her ear and whispered.

"I never want you to meet Itachi, but if for some reason you do promise me you won't fight him." Sakura gasped lightly. "Promise me that you'll run and find help, he takes away everything that is important to me Sakura…you are important to me." He said in a whisper. He pulled away and looked at her eyes that were slightly teary.

"b-but Sasuke…" she whispered.

"Promise me." Sasuke said grabbing onto her shoulders looking at her with a pleading look.

"Okay I promise." She replied and hugged him tight. Sasuke returned the hug in his own way. Sasuke closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of having her in his arms since he knew he would be leaving her in less than a week.

To Be Continued…

So what did you think? The next chapter is going to take me a while because it's my longest chapter and is going to take a while to type up. Within the next couple a chapters things are going to start happening again. Sorry to all those he found these past chapters a bit blah.

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