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Disclaimer: Naruto and I have no bond whatsoever. My bond is with sasusaku….not the story by Masashi Kishimoto…(starts crying).

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Hot breaths mingled with each other as one glared and the other smirked.

-"I think I won." He stated as he saw her glare intensify.

-"Get off Uchiha or I swear you will never see the light of day." Sakura said while gritting her teeth together tightly. "You didn't win. You cheated."

-"How did I cheat?" he asked skeptically.

-"You got me off guard when I thought the fight had ended and pushed me down on the ground. That's cheating, just in case you didn't know that." She said sarcastically.

His smirk grew.

-"It was obvious that I could beat a weak kunoichi like you. You're still the pathetic and weak kunoichi I left behind." He stressed the 'I' so harshly. Sakura looked away from his face, until Sasuke grabbed her face with his two hands and made her look at him straight in the eyes.

Sakura felt like punching him and make him regret ever saying those words, but she decided on choice number 2.

-"You're right about one thing…you did leave a weak kunoichi behind. It's funny how that weak and pathetic kunoichi would've given her life for you without thinking it twice. She was blind, she was blinded by something that everyone in Konoha called a crush. Well they were right about that, it was a crush, because all that emotion left her was with a crushed heart. Do you know what that kunoichi thought when you left her on that bench on that night?"

She stared straight at his eyes, completely unmoving and void of emotions. Sasuke's smirk turned into a frown. Where was she getting at? She didn't really love him?

-"Well? Do you want to know, Sasuke-kun? Do you really want to know?" she said.

He looked at her and saw her anger deep inside. He nodded. She smirked.

-"She pitied you. She understood. She knew what she had to do. She cried the tears that she knew you couldn't. She dedicated herself to you for many years. She did everything that she knew you wished you could do. She rendered herself helpless to YOUR memory. She never gave up until the day her father died. She didn't want Naruto or Kakashi to save her. She wanted YOU to save her. She wanted YOU to come and protect her from that man. She prayed that you would come and sweep her off her feet, because if that happened, Sasuke, if that would've happened, she knew that you still cared. She would know that you really did care for her and that you really were her knight in shining armor." She finished off as a tear fell down her cheek.

Sasuke stared at her and the tear that quickly fell onto one of his palms. He stared deep into those emerald eyes and somehow saw all the scenes of her crying and her father hitting her play through them. Somehow, he felt the tears she had cried for him. He felt her.

-"Sakura-" he was cut off by a finger that was gently pushed against his lips.

-"Shhh…shut up. That's the day that THIS pathetic and weak kunoichi stopped being one and became what you see in front of you. That was the day when she figured out that her 'Sasuke-kun' was only her mind playing tricks on her. That HER 'Sasuke-kun' never existed. That the man that is before her, right now, this instant, is the REAL 'SASUKE-KUN' AND NOT THE ONE FROM HER FAIRYTALES THAT SHE HAD EVERY NIGHT AFTER HER FATHER KICKED HER TO DEATH. AFTER HER FATHER HAD FINALLY GOTTEN AWAY WITH ALMOST KILLING HER LIKE EVERY NIGHT." Sakura screamed in his face. She calmed down then, and looked away. "Every time her father kicked her and punched her and beat her to a pulp, you know what her would tell her?"

Silence. She looked back up at him and straight into his eyes.

-"He would tell her 'you looked too high and at the same time too low. Pathetic as you are, I can't believe you still believe. Wake up to the real world and see the truth. You were pathetic then and you still are.' And he would end up with three words that would completely break the poor girl's heart. If he didn't say those words to her every night, maybe that girl would still love you."

She stopped and looked even deeper into his eyes. He was at a loss for words and decided a long time ago that speaking was prohibited. She smirked at him and chuckled a bit. This scared him. Was she going crazy? He quickly locked her back into his stare. He wanted her to tell him. What was it that her father told her? What made her stop loving him?

-"What did he say, Sakura?" he inquired as his sharingan came into action. He was irritated. She chuckled even harder. She stopped and looked at him again.

-"When the sun hits you in this exact place, Sasuke-kun, you look adorable." She said.

She was trying to trail off the topic. He glared at her.

-Sakura tell me." He demanded.

-"What good will it do?" she asked.

-"Say it." He glared harder. She flinched.

-"Don't glare Sasuke, when I haven't given you a reason to be angry at me." She said.

He stopped the glare and sighed.

-"Just tell me Saku-" he was cut off.

-"You. Are. Annoying."

Sasuke looked at Sakura and his eyes widened. Was that what her father would tell her each night? The same exact words that he would say to her? Was he just like her father, like that man?

-"Sakura I-" again he was cut off.

-"She never made that connection." As if reading his mind. "Her Sasuke-kun was a God and her father was a Demon. They were complete opposites. In her mind, that word is normal. That word is what everyone thinks of her, only that her Sasuke-kun was brave enough to tell her the truth of how she was. He was the one to help her become what she was. She would be eternally grateful to him for telling her of her flaws."

Sasuke stared wide-eyed. She, Sakura, loved him that much? She was THAT blind?

He stared into those eyes that again let a tear slip out of them. They were watery, and in Sasuke's opinion, beautifully glistening. What did he do to deserve such unconditional love?

He looked at her. She was shaking, he knew it, even though she was trying to hide it.

He didn't know what made him do it, but he did it…

He quickly picked her up and pulled her bridal style in his arms. Sakura stared at him. He didn't even glance at her.

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They arrived home, their home, and he looked at the woman in his arms. She had fallen asleep. He decided that he should take her to her room. When he pushed the door open to the room, he almost dropped the woman in his arms and stared wide-eyed.

Pictures…pictures everywhere. Anywhere you looked.

He stopped gawking since he noticed that it wasn't an 'Uchiha' thing to do and put Sakura on her bed. Sasuke looked around the room. There were pictures of Naruto, Kakashi, Ino, Neji, and the rest of rookie nine. Multiple pictures of them.

There were like twenty pictures of Naruto…well, maybe he's exaggerating., but there were photographs of all of them. Then, he found only one picture that he didn't notice before. He picked the photograph up. It was right next to team 7's picture that they took so many years ago.

It was Sasuke's profile picture. The one from the file that Tsunade gave her to review and check for this mission that she was put with him. She actually put it on a frame?

He looked around the room again. He noticed that there weren't any other pictures of him. Maybe, she wanted one of him to have for her extensive collection? Or maybe, she still loved him? Either way, it meant that she acknowledged him and somehow, he was happy by it.

Something else caught his eyes. There was no picture with her in it, other than the team 7 one. Why?

He heard a noise and turned around to see Sakura up from her bed and staring at him, as if he had two heads.

-"What are you doing in my room?"

Busted.

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Finished! I'm off to do my English homework! I have a bitch for a teacher!

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