As she walked on the quiet empty road, she pondered the night's events.

She never heard the reason why Sasuke was back. All she knew was that Sasuke had said that he had killed him; Itachi Uchiha, his very own brother and mental tormentor. Itachi was the full reason for Sasuke's hatred, but now he was dead. Sakura smirked to herself. To her, Itachi had been stronger than anyone she knew. Strong enough to withstand Orochimaru, who had killed the Third Hokage, stronger then her teacher Tsunade, who Sakura knew was up there with Orochimaru and Jaraiya; stronger then Sasuke. Itachi had tortured Sasuke with the memories of his dreadful childhood, tried many of times to kill Naruto, and in the end had been the main reason for life messing up, and her world turning up side down.

Kakashi, Sakura exclaimed in her head; he would know what to do. Then a sudden realization hit her. She couldn't tell him about Sasuke. No; Kakashi would probably be one of the first to try and kill him. If anyone was angrier then Sakura and Naruto, at Sasuke's betrayal, it would be Kakashi. What to do then?

Sakura sighed, stopping in stride to look up into the night sky, noticing at once the half formed moon and the few scattered stars. She decided the best thing she could do right now is find out what time it was. She needed to be at the hospital as the night shift changed to day shift, which usually took place around 5:30. She could go ahead to the hospital now, and check on the time, help if needed, and then wait until day shift changed, and get straight to actual work.

She looked around, finally taking notice that no one was around. She signed inwardly knowing she wasn't this careless, but tonight's events had left her out of it. Taking the road to the hospitals would be a long route, that's when she glanced at the roofs. When they were younger, Naruto had introduced an exciting way to travel. He had showed her the rooftops of Konoha. She had never really thought about it before but of course Naruto had, claiming that he had to have an easy way to escape trouble. They use to play games on these rooftops, like hide and seek, tag, and chase. Naruto had been very fast considering, but Sakura was no slowpoke either.

After they matured though, Sakura realized, they didn't play games as much. Of course Naruto offered, but Sakura would always to busy following Sasuke, and they would all train with each other or go on missions. Then Sasuke ran away to Orochimaru, Naruto went to train with Jaraiya, and Sakura spent her time learning new skills and jutsu's under Tsunade. When Naruto came back, they went on more missions, trained more, worked more, and looked for Sasuke more. They did everything more, instead of having fun.

But a ninja's life is never fun, is it? Sakura thought silently, a soft melancholy feeling washing up in her. She knew what she was going to do now. With a sudden burst of chakra, she sprang up unto the nearest roof, a exhilarated yelp escaped from her mouth, and she smiled. Looking around herself, she spotted the hospital's familiar structure a considerable distant away, and without another though, she started running at full speed toward it. The wind whipped her short rosy hair into her face, and her eyes started watering with the force, but she didn't care. The only thing on her mind followed from her previous though of the past. A ninja's life, though hard, was simple to lay out; always to kill, be killed, or have someone you love killed.

Her next immediate thought went straight to Shikamaru. After Asuma died, he had stayed in his house all day, with the only activity she knew of, smoking. The reason she knew this was because the only time he ever came out of his house was to buy some cigarettes, and check on Kurenai and her unborn baby. For 7 months, only the shop clerk, and Kurenai actually saw him, and Kurenai didn't count because she herself had closed herself in as well. Talking with Ino on night, she told me she was worried about them both, so she was going to interfere. She was going to confront Shikamaru, and talk some sense into him. I didn't believe her and for a while nothing happened.

Then one day Ino got mad, and barged right into Shikamaru's house. No one knows what happened inside or what was said, but by the next day, Ino had Shikamaru outside his house walking around town. Sakura figured Ino yelled at him, and yet somehow got him to open up. A little while after that, Shikamaru talked to Kurenai and got through to her too. Her and Asuma's baby girl was born not long after that, a healthy little girl with Asumas' eyes and Kurenais' curly hair. Sakura sees her every once in awhile, at the hospital, and her and her baby are doing fine. Shikamaru on the other hand is hardly ever seen inside, and he spends most of his time with Ino now.

Sakura's thoughts turned to Konohamaru then. When Tsunade had first became the fifth Hokage, he had blamed everyone that they were forgetting his grandfather. But Tsunade and Naruto explained to him that no one dies truthfully. Everyone lives on in the memories of the people who loved them. Konohamaru didn't want to hear it at first but eventually he finally excepted Tsunade as the fifth Hokage. Now he is trying his hardest to become just like his grandfather.

And lastly, she thought of Tsunade; Strong, arrogant Tsunade. She had lost her brother and her lover, and because of this she had became afraid of blood. She couldn't work as a medic-nin no more, so she ran. She fled away from her fears so unlike a ninja, but then had to face them full throttle when Orochimaru came for her. Her fighting spirit shone through as she overcame that fear, and is now one of the strongest ninja in the village, leading us as our Hokage.

One last roof, and WHOOSH, Sakura landed gracefully on the ground in front of the hospital. She fell back gently unto the wall, breathing heavily, exhilarated for the first time in a while. She smiled. Even though she didn't know what time it was, she was wide awake, the feeling of being alive coursing through her veins. Placing one hand on the wall beside her, she gently pushed her self forward, and looked around. Stepping up closer to the hospital she looked though one of the windows and noted to herself that it was indeed still night shift. She had met, and more then likely employed, all of the medic-nin and so she knew which one worked which shift. She took a step towards the door, and froze. She was still in her pajamas. If a sweat drop could appear it would have. She looked around once again noticing that no one was around.

She ducked behind the dumpster in the back of the building and stripped off her clothing. A breeze tickled her uncovered stomach as she quickly shimmed up her skirt, and tugged her shirt over her head and down her torso. She fastened her belt a cross her waist and re adjusted her ninja boots before standing up. Running her finger though her hair, she frown. She probably looked frightening. She dug around in her pockets, until she found what she was looking for. It was a small, plain black compact mirror that Ino had given her on her last birthday. She quickly opened it and peered in immediately looking at her mirror image.

Her hair was mildly ruffled, more from the wind instead of sleeping. She normally wore no make-up, so her face was normal. She didn't even look tired. She wasn't as bad as she thought. Sure it could be better, but Sakura wasn't going back to her house that quickly. Sasuke needed time to think. Sakura probably needed it more.

Sighing, she closed the mirror and replaced in back into her pocket. Walking out from behind the trash can, she straightened her clothing, and then with a deep breath she strode into the hospital.

Note from Author: Sorry for the short Chapter. This is a premade story i wrote a while back so i am going through it. I didnt notice that where i ended last time would leave the next post so short. My dearest apologies.

please Comment and review. And i will promise i'll have it all reedited and out soon! Just bare with me! :) Toodles!

~Kisara Sama