A/N sorry about the late update the reason is at the end note so plz read it. Thank you all my readers you do not know how much your reviews really mean to me so here it is chapter 5
Summary: Sasuke starts to think about his time in Konoha and Sakura especially Sakura and soon comes to a decision that could be changing his life for the better or the worse or maybe it's not just his life he should be worrying about. Akatski seems to want something from Konoha and its not just Naruto it's all of team 7. But maybe just this once everything will turn out in there favor, just this once SasuSaku, slight (NaruHina, NejiTen, ShikaIno)
Warning: there might be some OOCness and spelling and grammar mistakes
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!!
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Just this Once
By Kataang2
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Chapter 5: Remembering & Reflections
"Where finally here" said Kakashi in a solemn voice as he began to reminisce about the past
"Yea this were it all began, where we first became – "said Sakura while choking up
"-a team" finished Naruto with a sad smile
"Yea we were all so different back then… and we all had not so different pasts" continued Sakura in a whisper
Flashback (can't you tell I love these)
"So tell me your like, dislikes, hobbies, and goals" said a man who looked to be around 30 with a mask and a headband covering all of his face except for his left eye (it is the left one right?. His silver (or is it gray) hair seemed to deify gravity as it stood up perfectly in the air.
"Why don't you start first you are the sensei" asked a 12 year old girl with pink hair
"My name is Kakashi Hatake…um I like things, I have dislikes, I have hobbies and my goals are my own"
"All he told us was his name" thought Naruto and Sakura together
"....." (I think you know who thought this and if you don't) thought Sasuke
"Ok go Blondie"
"Hi my name is Naruto Uzumaki, I love ramen and Sakura-chan" starts Naruto with heart shaped eyes looking lovingly towards Sakura who merely scowled at him in return
" I hate the 3 minutes you have to wait for ramen to cook and Sasuke-teme and I'm going to be hokage someday believe it"
Weird kid
"Pinkie"
"My name is Sakura Haruno, I like… she looks shyly over to Sasuke who merely scowls in return, um… I hate Naruto, and my goal is… she starts to fantasize about marring Sasuke.
"Ok emo kid lets go" (sorry couldn't help it he sort of did act like it back then)
"Sasuke Uchiha, I don't like anything persay, I dislike the dobe, my goals are to kill a certain someone and rebuild my clan.
-Sweatdrop- Great I have an over energetic Blondie, a love struck pinkie, the emo king and a love triangle. This is going to be some team. I guess the Hokage was right to warn me. (Kakashi's thoughts)
Earlier that day…
"You called me Hokage-sama"
"Kakashi I think there's something you need to know about the team your going to be assigned—"started the Hokage before he was cut off by an impatient Kakashi
"What's there that I don't know Hokage-sama, I know I have the younger of the two Uchiha survivors, Sasuke and Naruto contains the nine- tailed demon fox inside of him, I can del with them" answered Kakashi from behind his famous orange book
He is to ignorant to see the truth, I shall warn him and hope he heeds it, or this may come back to bite me on the butt (saratobi's thoughts)
"Do not just except Sakura Haruno for what she seems to be on the outside, Not everything is as it seems, looks can be deceiving, do not leave her out of your teaching just because she does not seem as strong as the others else it will become the biggest mistake of your lifetime."
End Flashback
Kakashi looked up to see Naruto and Sasuke fighting again, but could tell it wasn't hostile by the large smile plastered on Naruto's face and the smirk on Sasuke's. He then looked over at his third former student and the smile immediately dropped from his face she wasn't happy like the rest of them, she was grimacing as if in pain. I was sure Sasuke coming home and staying would have made her happy, but I guess she's never been the same since she got back from Akatsuki
Look at them fighting just like old times all three of them with smiles on their faces. I'll never be happy like that thought Sakura with a grimace
Inner: what makes you think that?
I just can't help but remember what Itachi said back when we were in Akatsuki
Flashback (I know again bear with me, plus its a little insight on what sakura thought about her time with Akatsuki)
"Itachi I want you to convince Haruno to stay shes' been thinking about leaving for weeks" said Pein to an emotionless Itachi she is needed here, our over all success rate has double since she came
"yes sir" he didn't know why he was doing this but now that he thought about it Sakura had done something that Pein could never achieve she brought them all together and taught them that even though they were missing-nin and thought to be heartless criminals they weren't they were human being and we could change our lives, after that we had many meetings about over throwing Pein
Itachi walks into the room to see Sakura packing her bags
"Sakura-san why are you leaving, they would never want you back in the first place or I'm sure they would have tried to retrieve you months ago. Did they even really know you? If they knew who you really were they would have probably ran you out of the village themselves. Your teacher never wanted you; he noticed how weak you were compared to Naruto and Sasuke and never once tried to train you. Everybody else had their teachers and teammates to help them but your teacher was too concerned with your teammates, Sasuke just wanted to kill me and Naruto just wanted to keep up with Sasuke. Then Sasuke left, Naruto left and Kakashi returned to the Anbu and left you all alone. You had to go find your own teacher. Do you think Kakashi would have left if it was Sasuke or Naruto in your place? Even after you got stronger didn't you notice whenever you and Naruto spared he would hold back and in the end you would be tired out and he wouldn't have even broke a sweat. Then he would just run off to go train with someone stronger as if you were just a warm up. Your whole team, all of you with tragic pasts. You were there for them when they needed it, but they couldn't even see your pain, they never were there when you needed it. Soon even the Hokage forgot about you. Remember the last Sasuke retrieval mission they had, you didn't know about it until two days after everybody left and when they came back they didn't even notice you they just ran straight to the Hokage's office as if you weren't even there. Do you even think they would want you back?"
Itachi got up to leave the room with these parting words "Do they want the Nanabi back" and with that he walked out closing the door shut behind him.
Sakura fell back onto the bed that she had come to know as has hers in the last couple months, she didn't show it while Itachi was still in the room, but his words had hit her hard. What if he was right that they didn't want her back; it would explain why they haven't tried to retrieve her yet? It was all true they were her team and they had never noticed her pain, Kakashi had never trained her. She had noticed how some of the villagers had treated Naruto because of the nine-tailed fox inside of him what if they found out that she held the seven tails would they treat her the same, did she really want to go through that.
She didn't get to ponder any longer before her mouth was covered by a hand and she was knocked out
Three hours later…
Sakura woke up to see orange, she looked around she was on Naruto's back, they had noticed she was awake yet so she laid back down and stayed quiet the entire ride to Konoha
When they got back to the Hokage's office all they did was scream about how they were going to get Akatsuki back for kidnapping her. Sakura was completely let out of the conversation or she would have told them that she liked it at Akatsuki. Sasori (1) is like the big brother she never had, so was Itachi, Deidria was the annoying bother she could not live without; Tobi was the insufferable little brother you couldn't help but love ( even though he PMSed more than me), Hidan, kakkaku, and Zetsu well they were just wired. Konan was the Mother I had always wanted and Pein was a father figure to them all, except Konan, sakura thought they were going out and when she brought it up all the guys snickered while Konan blushed and Pein just looked away; but sakura thought she saw a tint of redness in his cheeks. They were like the Family she had always dreamed of having. She loved it there with them an if she had the choice now that she thinks about it would she have left?
End Flashback
Sakura didn't think she'll ever be that happy here. She thought when Sasuke came back she just might be able to be happy but he hadn't even as much as looked at her since the kiss. She guessed that was just not meant for happy endings.
But you could be happy
Yea if Sasuke loved me
I have a feeling he does love you he just has problems showing you
But he won't even come near me
Sasuke looked over towards Sakura thinking why she looks so sad
Hmmmmm…. I wonder dipstick maybe it's the fact the you leave her for a gay pedophile that wanted you body then 2 ½ freakin years later you finally come back tell her you love her and give her the kiss of a lifetime then you just ignore her
Oh
Go talk to her you idiot
Fine
????? POV
Sasuke got up and walked over to Sakura and sat down next to her with determination in his eyes
"Sasuke I thin-"began Sakura but she was cut off by Sasuke's lips on hers
This is a very interesting development I'm sure Madra-sama would make good use of this information in the future and with that he melted away into the ground. (2)
I know Sasori is dead but for the sake of this story he's alive
The standings in Akatsuki go as followed
Sakura's side: Itachi, Konan, Deidria, Tobi, Sasori, Pein, Kiseme (sp)
Akatsuki's side: Madra, Zetsu, Hidan, kakkaku (Hidan's partner not sure how to spell it sorry)
A/N You guys do not know how sorry I am about updating this late you see like I said before I don't have a computer so I have to use my moms and she has something against fan fiction so I am not supposed to read it and she still doesn't know I'm writing it thank god or who knows what she would do so I had to write when shes not here so it takes a while for me to update also you can expect the first chapter of my other story when Petals Melt Ice sometime next week. Once again I am so sorry about the lateness. Please read and review I need all the help I can get.
Kataang2,
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