Ok…. Here's the next chapter that you've been waiting for. I want to say thank you so much to all of my reviewers and that I love you guys waterfall of tears anime style.

I also want to say thank you to one of my best friend that always is there for me and although she's not a crazed sasusaku fan like me… she still takes the time to read my stuff… hehe, thanks (she knows who she is so I don't have to put the name).

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'What am I doing? Why am I running down this hall? Am I really that desperate to see him again? No, I can't let him get away with it again, I have to be calm and I need to control myself.' It's all Sakura could think of as she slowed down her pace down the hall. She is not the child she used to be is all she has to remember so this all could go well…. right? Caught up in her own little world Sakura didn't notice that Naruto and Hinata had stopped following her from behind until the blonde broke the silence.

-"Sakura-chan, where are you going?" asked Naruto with his face tilted to the side. Sakura looked back at him and then looked at the door he was standing in front of. '316, oh shit, I was so caught up in my own little world that I passed the door.' Sakura thought as she walked back to the door where Naruto was standing with Hinata.

-"Nothing, I just wanted to check something over at another patient of mine but I changed my mind. 'Nice cover up CHA!' screamed inner Sakura. Sakura went to open the door feeling herself shake from all the emotions bottled up inside. What was he going to say? Did he change a lot? Suddenly she grasped the knob and opened the door. Immediately, Sakura looked at the person that was on the bed. Emerald stared deep into onyx eyes, he was still as beautiful as ever. Suddenly, both of them snapped from there gaze as they heard the loud and annoying voice that they both knew and loved….Naruto. (A/N: no brainer)

-"Teme! So it's true that you're back? Wait until Kakashi-sensei hears about this!" He said passing through Sakura and forgetting completely about Hinata as he approached his old friend and stood to the right of his bed. Hinata seeing this as her cue said that she would come by later and left.

-"Still a dobe" Sasuke said nonchalantly looking at Naruto for a split second and then gazing back at the pink-haired beauty that was slowly approaching him. Sakura stood in front of the bed, looking at him straight in the eyes. Nothing…. he showed no emotions, like always. At least in some extent, he was still the Sasuke they knew and loved. The truth was that she looked at him and she saw that he didn't change at all. His face is still the most beautiful she laid eyes on. He smirked at her. Why did he smirk? What was he thinking about? Did he think that she still loved him? No, she doesn't. She doesn't give a damn about him. He left her and took her heart with him. He never gave it back and she became heartless since the day he left. He didn't even say goodbye! All he could say was a thank you, pathetic, he was pathetic…and so was she for loving him. Naruto interrupted her train of thoughts as he started screaming at Sasuke for calling him a dobe. For some reason, the Naruto butting in thing was really starting to get on her nerves.

-"Naruto" she said with a calm and happy voice. He looked up with a smile on his face…so innocent.

-"Yes Sakura-chan?" he flashed his giant grin at her. She smiled a fake smile at him and looked at him in the eyes breaking the smile and showing anger-filled ones instead.

-"Don't. Scream. We're. In. The. Hospital." She said stressing every syllable. He looked at her confused but shut his mouth and tried to listen to what else she had to say. "Don't scream in a hospital u idiot!" Her sweet, soft voice turning into screaming with each word she says. Naruto with this understood, but not before cowering to hide behind the chair that was next to Sasuke's bed. He nodded vigorously and scared of how Sakura gets mad so easily.

Meanwhile Sasuke watched the whole scene unfold and couldn't help but start laughing. At this Sakura and Naruto both looked at him with wide eyes. Since when did Sasuke laugh? Is it the end of the world already?

-"What's so funny" Sakura said in a harsh tone. Sasuke couldn't help but flinch at it since Sakura had never spoken to him like that. How things have changed since he left. Then he thought for a second….how fun this was going to be. A smirk appeared from his usual stoic face once more. He's going to have so much fun with Sakura.

-"You" he said while he kept his smirk, only growing wider. If he knew Sakura, she would throw a fit at him and start screaming, because that's how she would react with Naruto. Wait… what was he thinking, she probably still loved him so she wouldn't do that to him….would she. Well, he was about to find out.

Sakura looked at his smirk and felt rage inside, She was about to scream her lungs out when she thought 'that's exactly what he wants me to do, well he better prepare for what's coming next then'.

-"Well, if I'm funny, you should see yourself trying to fight your brother. Wait, no, that's not funny, that's just pathetic." She said while smirking. As her smirk grew, his deteriorated. Rage grew inside of him. How dare she bring that guy up. She hit a spot, and she knew it well. Naruto watching this scene unfold felt very uncomfortable.

-"I'm going to get a drink of water, I'll be right back" he said as he closed the door behind him, but what he didn't know is that his words fell into deaf ears. Sasuke and Sakura were so caught up in a staring contest that they didn't notice the blonde leave until he shut the door. When they heard the door close, Sakura broke from the gaze and looked at the door. Naruto had left him alone with the beast, she sighed and went to sit in the chair next to his bed.

-"Why did you come back?" she asked as she tried looking out the window of his room to avoid his gaze.

-"This is my home as much as yours and I wanted to come back." He stated trying to look her in the eyes while she ran away from his. All he wanted too do right now was grab her face and make her look at him straight in the eyes. He needed to see those sparkling emerald eyes that he once knew. He would never admit it but he missed the sincerity and the innocence in them. In sound, no one had those eyes because all of them were blood thirsty criminals. He waited for her response patiently, not taking his eyes off of her.

-"You lost your home when you left and betrayed it." She said, still not looking at his eyes. It hurts when she looks in those eyes. She knows all the sorrow that his eyes hold and she hated it. She once thought that she could change that sorrow into happiness, but she was a fool that believed in him and that was her mistake. She was blind…blind, he made her that way. She could only see great things in him, while she tried hiding the darkness that was consuming him hoping that if she wished it gone, it would go away and never return. Damn, she was wrong. The darkness only grew, when it was so large and so thick that it engulfed him whole. That darkness, is still in him. She can feel it, feeding off of him like if he were its meal. The truth is, he wasn't what actually fed it, the hate he had for his brother is what kept that darkness alive, and she believed that it would never go away. He sighed and for one second she turned her eyes to look at him. Big mistake because he took that time to look right into her orbs and now she was trapped in his onyx pools like so many times before. They stared at each other for a while until he broke the silence.

-"If I lost my home, Sakura, then how come I found my way back to it?"

-"Luck, Uchiha-san, pure luck" she answered nonchalantly. He flinched, since when was he Uchiha-san? What happened to Sasuke-kun? He looked into her eyes. They still held that innocence and that tenderness they always had but something was different. Her eyes were dull, they weren't bright anymore like they used to be. What happened to her? Did he do this to her?

-" What happened since I was gone?"

-"Nothing much" she answered in a flash, hoping that he would stop that question in it's tracks. She doesn't want to remember what happened when he left. It's too painful to remember what that man did to her and her mother. No, she was not going to breakdown and cry in front of Sasuke, not him. Sasuke could see through the disguise, she was lying. What was she lying about though? He'd have to ask Naruto or Kakashi later because he knows that Sakura isn't going to tell him. "Did you… um… I mean… did you miss anything from Konoha since you left?" Sakura said. She was trying to avoid further questioning and he knew it. He would let her have her way though.

-"Maybe" he said smirking at her. She felt infuriated, God how she wants to kill the man before her! 'Yea right' popped in inner Sakura. Of course she doesn't want to kill him, she wants to hug him and cry on his shoulder and hope that he would comfort her, but she wasn't going to degrade herself to such stupidity. She already did that too many times during her childhood. With this thought in mind, Naruto came in holding two cups of water. He gave one to Sakura and he drank the other one dry.

-"Did you miss me while I was away?" Naruto asked while grinning.

-"No" both Sasuke and Sakura said in unison glaring daggers at Naruto. He saw this and started laughing. Hopefully, team 7 could get back together and he would be really happy having his two best friends together with him again. 'Wait until Kakashi-sensei hears about this!' he thought while still keeping his grin. Sakura got tired of glaring and sighed, it's not Naruto's fault that she was mad, it's Sasuke's so she shouldn't be glaring at him. Sasuke stopped his glaring thinking of the same exact thing as Sakura and he too sighed. This was going to be a very very long day.