Thanks so much for the reviews guys! The TentenxLee thing got some of you and many of you were asking why. The thing is (other than the 'I don't like NejixTenten thing) that I have something else in store later on in the story. Lee and Tenten are not going to show up a lot so I don't consider this as a LeexTenten fic either. I needed Neji to be alone for the whole thing to work out so... I had to get rid of Tenten. Sorry if some of you don't like it but that's the way it goes.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto (runs away crying).

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Sasuke smirked as he saw who the person was. "Finally you show up, I thought that you weren't going to come" he said still keeping his smirk plastered on his face. What was bothering him was why did Sakura act like that with Kakashi? Wow, things have changed so much since he's been away. He was expecting Sakura to scream at him for being late or something like that, but she hugged him instead.

Sakura let go of Kakashi and smiled up at him. He (behind his mask) also smiled back at her. She went back to the check-up that was almost finished. Kakashi eyed Sasuke. He changed almost nothing at all. He saw the smirk that his ex-pupil had on his face and knew that Sasuke was happy to see him. That alone was a giant relief for Kakashi. What was bothering him was why Sakura wasn't saying anything to him. All she did was come to him, give him a hug and smiled. He was expecting some fight or an argument of some kind between her and Sasuke. He was actually hoping for that since it would've been so much fun watching them. "You should know me better Sasuke, I always arrive late. This time it was because I needed to help and old lady cross the street and then after I did that she insisted that I accompany her for tea. I couldn't refuse to suck request so I had to go with her and time flew by, until she finally let me come see you." Sasuke had stopped looking at his former sensei and looked at Sakura instead. She was so amazing. She healed all his scars and gashes so quickly. Kakashi took notice of this and also was a bit freaked out. His students hadn't stopped him from giving the fake explanation at all! Usually they would stop him at mid sentence and say something like shut up Kakashi-sensei, we know it isn't true, or something like that. It really bothered him but he shrugged it off. Sakura finished with Sasuke and looked back at Kakashi and signaled the chair next to the Uchiha's bed. He nodded and went to sit there. He took his Icha Icha Paradise book and started reading. 'Wow, what company you give me Kakashi-sensei' thought sarcastically Sasuke.

-"I'll be leaving now, so I'll see you both later" Sakura said hoping that she really didn't need to see Sasuke later.

-"Wait" She looked at her ex-sensei puzzled. Why did he ask her to stop.

-"Yes, Kakashi-sensei?" she asked. After all those years, she still couldn't stop herself from saying the sensei part at the end of his name. In her heart, he would always be Kakashi-sensei and no one else. He looked up from his book to look at her.

-"Stay a while with me and Sasuke here" he said waiting for one of her outbursts. He knew that she might have other patients waiting but he wanted to give it a try.

-"Why do you want me to stay?" she asked out of pure curiosity. She didn't want to be in the same room as Sasuke, but if Kakashi really wanted her to, she could give it a shot. Maybe he has something important to say.

-"I have something to tell you both" he said nonchalantly. Sakura went and sat down on the edge of Sasuke's bed. "Before anything, Sakura, do you have any patients waiting for you?" he asked just in case he was keeping her from something.

-"No" she said as she stared at Kakashi. 'What is he up to' she asked herself while she stared at her sensei. Good, he wasn't keeping her from anything. He took his book back up and started reading it. Sasuke and Sakura were staring at Kakashi ike if he had grown two heads. "Um, Kakashi-sensei, what is it that you want to say?" she asked getting annoyed at Kakashi.

-"I'm waiting for Naruto to get here" he said without moving his eyes off of his book. Sakura and Sasuke both sweatdropped.

-"Can't you just say it right now and then say it to Naruto later?" Sakura asked getting annoyed.

-"That wouldn't do" he said. Sasuke and Sakura both looked at Kakashi then at eachother and sighed.

-"Why not?" asked Sasuke, also getting annoyed.

-"Because I would have to say it twice" he said knowing that soon Sakura would explode and so would Sasuke. Instead, Saskura just sighed and looked at Sasuke shaking her head. He understood what she was saying and stopped himself before saying anything else to Kakashi. He clearly understood that Sakura's face was showing a 'he's doing it on purpose, do't give him the pleasure' face. They stood quiet for a while until the door suddenly burst open to reveal the blonde headed ninja they know and love. "Ah, you're here. Sit down Naruto". Naruto didn't even get to say anything as he went to sit right next to Sakura that by this time had fallen asleep and was leaning on the post of the bed.

-"What's up Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto, seeing as how all of team 7 was in the room.

-"The Godaime asked me to convey Sasuke's punishment to him since she had other things to do." he said still eyeing his perverted book. Naruto was too busy trying to wake Sakura up so she could hear Kakashi that he didn't notice the look that Kakashi gave him. "If I were you I wouldn't do that" he said looking at Naruto with pity in his eyes. In this instant, Sakura woke up and gave Naruto a death glare.

-" WHY THE HELL DID YOU WAKE ME UP YOU STUPID IDIOT! she said grabbing Naruto by the collar and slamming him against the wall. Naruto was too scared to say anything and just looked at Sakura with shocked eyes. She noticed this and then looked around her surroundings. Now she remembered, she was still at the hospital. She sighed and let go of Naruto. "Finally you show up" she said as she went back to sitting on Sasuke's bed. Sasuke who was watching all of this scene unfold couldn't help but think of it as hilarious as he chuckled to himself afraid of what Sakura would do to him if she saw him. Kakashi just sighed and shook his head, he knew perfectly well that it was bound to happen out of own experience. Sakura once pounded him against the floor and punched him because he had woken her up asking if she would go train with him today. "Let's get on with this already" she said as Naruto was getting up and decided not to sit down for fear that she might do something worse to him.

- "The godaime said that Sasuke will take a the Jounin test and then he'll be a Jounin if he passes." he paused to put his book away. He looked at Naruto and then at Sakura and then finally at Sasuke. "You don't have your apartment anymore so you have to stay with someone. The Godaime has decided that it'd be either Naruto or Sakura and also..." he looked again at Naruto and Sakura. "You two are both assigned on the mission to guard Sasuke Uchiha for a couple of months until the Hokage decides we can trust him again. After this, you have to go see the Godaime. She wants to talk to you." he said the last sentence looking at Sakura. She nodded in understanding. Taking his serious face and putting the smirk across his face. "So who gets Sasuke?" He asked like if they were in an auction.

-"I can't get him because my apartment is too small and I'm living with Hinata-chan...so...sorry Sasuke" said Naruto not being able to look at Sakura in the face. He and everyone in the room knew she was about to explode. When they had enough courage to look up at her, all of them were wide eyed. She was smirking. Why the hell was she smirking? Did she want Sasuke to go with her? No that can't be it... hmmm... what is she planning? She got up from the bed.

-"Now that we have this settled, I'll be leaving. The Godaime wants to see me." she said as she left and closed the door. All three males stared at eachother. 'What was that all about?' they all had that thought in their heads.

-"Well now that we have that settled, I'm leaving" Kakashi said as he got up from his seat and taking out his book to read once more. "It was good seeing you Sasuke" he said as he waved his hand and left the room. It was Naruto and Sasuke, alone, in a hospital room. They eyed eachother as Naruto sat down on the chair Kakashi was sitting.

-"Hey teme, long time isn't it" Naruto said trying to get a conversation going.

-"We saw eachother yesterday, dobe." Sasuke said nonchalantly. Naruto glared, Sasuke glared back, and then for some reason, Naruto started laughing. Sasuke looked at him puzzled. 'He must have lost it, I knew this day was going to come sooner or later. The ramen went to his head' Sasuke thought. Finally when Naruto calmed down, Sasuke saw this as his cue. "Do you know if Sakura is cutting herself?" Sasuke asked Naruto. Naruto became speechless, why was Sasuke bringing this up? Sasuke knew he had to explain better. " I saw a giant gash in her right hand and many scratches in her wrist" he said trying to convey to Naruto why he was asking such a question.

-"Oh that, you almost scared me teme. I thought it was something different you were trying to ask." Naruto said as he let out the breath he was holding since Sasuke asked the question. Sasuke looked at him...What the hell was this guy rumbling about? Something else? " Sasuke, stuff happened since you were gone, but believe me, Sakura isn't cutting herself." he said with seriousness in his voice.

-"Then what the hell happened to her? Those cuts couldn't be from missions. I don't think that ninjas would go for her wrists to kill her and how can you be so sure?" he asked getting more anxious to know about the truth. Naruto looked at Sasuke and sighed, he probably had to tell him.

-"What I'm about to tell you, no word of this to Sakura-chan, okay?" he asked, whispering to Sasuke. Sasuke looked at him and nodded in agreement. "The thing is that Sakura has had those cuts for many years already. Someone did all those things to her on purpose and she never stopped him."

-"Why?"

-"Because that someone was Sakura's father." Sasuke's eyes widened. What the hell?

-"Why did he do that to his own daughter?" he asked with pain in his voice. Why did it hurt him so much that her father did those things to her?

-"No one knows, he was probably crazy. I don't know Sasuke, but the truth is that this guy hated his wife and daughter so much."

-"Why didn't you stop him from hurting Sakura, what about her mother? Didn't she try stopping him?" Sasuke was getting mad and he was burning on the inside.

-"She never told me or Kakashi-sensei about it, how were we supposed to know? And, Sakura's mother...she had died when Sakura was 16."

-"How did you find out then dobe!" Sasuke was furious, he leaves for a few years and finds out that no one was there for his Sakura. Wait...back up, his Sakura? He must be going crazy. Sakura wasn't his and he just said that because he's mad at Naruto for not taking care of her while he was gone. Wait...why should he be mad? Argh, this is getting annoying, he doesn't give a damn about Sakura or Naruto, he came back to the village to resume his training so he can kill Itachi kuso (A/N: damnit in japanese)! Suddenly his eyes turned into blood red sharingan. Naruto saw this and his eyes widened. Sasuke was pissed and if the curse acts up!

-"Sasuke calm down, she's fine now, don't worry about it. Kakashi-sensei was the one that noticed that Sakura wasn't the same and then one day followed her home and saw what her father was doing to her. He grabbed the man and took him to the Hokage. There was an execution, he's dead Sasuke. Sakura's fine! She's over it!" Naruto said trying to calm Sasuke down. What both of them didn't know was that Sakura was listening to all of the conversation. She had forgotten her list of patients in Sasuke's room and was coming back when she heard Naruto say '...Sakura's father'. Without noticing, a single tear was falling through her pale and soft skin. Her father, that man... how he hurt her. What was more puzzling to her other than the fact that they were talking about her was why had Sasuke gotten mad? He doesn't give a damn about her. It's his fault that all of this happened to her. He was the main cause, because when he left, was when her father started acting like that. He started by hitting her mother until her mther couldn't take it anymore and he finished off killing her. She had left her alone with the monster she called dad. She had to let him hurt her for 2 whole years until someone finally saw what was slowly happening to her. She was dying on the inside and was bruised on the outside. Her heart was the thing that was hurting the most. That stupid worthless thing, if it weren't for her heart, she could've stopped her father and she would've probably had been able to save her mother. No, it wasn't Sasuke's fault, it was hers, for having a heart and listening to her mother begging her to not say anything to anyone about her father's abusive behavior. Without thinking, she grabbed the door knob and opened the door. She looked at Naruto screaming at Sasuke, God knows what, she was too into her thoughts to notice and then she looked at Sasuke. Why did he have to come back after all these years? It hurts, that thing that stopped hurting a long time ago. She thought that she had lost it, but he comes back and it starts hurting and comes back. Did he return it to her? Did her father and Sasuke return to her what she had lost and was happy to have lost, her heart? Did he finally give it back. Now several tears were streaming down her porcelain face. Why did it have to come back? She doesn't want it back! Let him take her heart again. She gave it to him so he could keep it. She hates this feeling. She hates the pain it gives. She hates her heart for making her weak and pathetic. She fell to the floor and looked down at it. So, did he come back to give it to her, but...why?

Sasuke and Naruto stayed quiet as they saw Sakura sink down to the ground. Right then and there, they knew, she wasn't really over it was she? Naruto was wrong, she didn't get over it and what's worse, she heard the conversation.Naruto approached Sakura... it hurt seeing her like that. It's been a long time since he's seen the kunoichi cry. Inside his heart was filled with mixed emotions. Sadness, pain, anger, but most of all...relief. Relief that she cried, that the team 7 Sakura was still there somewhere. Not the replica of Sasuke, no, Sakura-chan, the one who would cry all the time one of team 7 got hurt. The one that would smile, true smiles and go and eat ramen with him while he would ask her out and she would hit him on the head saying that she only loved Sasuke. Sasuke... why did he get so mad when Naruto talked about Sakura's father? He had never seen Sasuke so mad. He looked like he was going to kill all of Konoha and then revive them to kill them again. Naruto went on his knees next to Sakura but before he could touch her, her voice stopped him.

-"Don't touch me" she said as she wiped the tears out of her face with her hand. She got up and approached the small table next to Sasuke and took her list and left closing the door. Naruto looked at the door for a while, until he got up from his place and opened the door and left without saying anything. Sasuke stood there trying to take in all the information and everything that just happened. Sasuke sighed, as he took the covers from his bed and lifted them up to hide his entire body. He tried going to sleep, but remembered Sakura's face as she looked at him. Her eyes were voids, they didn't show anything. They looked like they were empty emeralds that didn't sparkle. They looked like they were some sort of hole that could take you in and you'll never find your way out of them. They looked like they weren't even looking at him, they were just there. They looked like... his eyes.

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So a lot of you found out it was Kakashi, congratulations. I really did try making it obvious.

My next chapter isn't going to be up in awhile because I'm going to Florida for some time so I won't be able to post it. When I come back, I'll be posting chapter six and thanks for all of the people that review once again. You really want to make me want to write. It fuels me to write so the more reviews, the faster I write.