Disclaimer:

Sakura: SasuSaku2995 does not own the rights to anything, except the plot of this story.

Naruto: Wait? Sakura? Where the hell have you been?

Sakura: Butt out, DOBE!

Sasuke: Hey! I can only call Dobe, Dobe –Sakura? *sweat drops anime style*

Sakura: *rolls eyes* Anyways… SasuSaku2995 no owny Naruto. Don't sue her, or I'll kick your ass. *Looks at Naruto and Sasuke* Later Losers! *disappears in a puff of smoke*

Sasuke and Naruto: *Sweat drop anime style* what the hell?

Naruto: Wait! Who doesn't own me?

Sasuke: *Sweat drops anime style* SasuSaku2995, Dobe. Later. *Disappears mysteriously*

Naruto: *sweat drops* DON'T LEAVE ME! *Disappears*

End of Disclaimer.

Bold font = Person's thoughts

Italic font = Person's Inner/ Inner's thoughts

Chapter 2 – Sakura's Back?

"Sasuke." Her moist, pale pink lips whispered in my ear, as she kissed his forehead, "time to get up."

Sasuke woke with a start. He was in his room, by himself.

"Damn it!" Sasuke cursed, 'just another damn dream! But I really thought it was Sakura.'

Sakura. She had been gone for over two years now.

Admit it, emo boy.Sasuke's Inner nagged at him, you miss her.

"Fine. I miss her." Sasuke said out loud. It didn't make him feel better. He slid out of bed wearing pajama pants and a black t-shirt. Sasuke got dressed for work and was just getting his morning coffee when he heard an annoying banging on his front door. Sasuke ignored it.

"TEME! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE! GET YOUR DAMN LAZY ASS OUT OF BED AND OPEN YOUR GOD DAMNED DOOR!" Naruto yelled through the door.

Sasuke rolled his eyes, opened the door.

"What, Naru—… Kakashi? What's wrong?" Kakashi had his ABNU uniform on.

"Lady Tsunade has called you, Naruto, and me to her office immediately."

I turned off the coffee pot and went to reach for my ABNU mask; however, Kakashi interceded and told him:

"You won't need that."

I left the mask.

A few minutes later we arrived at Hokage Tower. We got to Lady Tsunade's office door. I knocked on the door.

"Who is it?"

"IT'S US GRANDMA TSUNADE!" Naruto bellowed.

"Enter."

I heard her whisper something else and a different female voice whispered a response back. I opened the door.

"Lady Tsunade, what is it? Is there something that's wr—?" I was shocked out of my mind because sitting there was none other than…

"SAKURA!" The annoying Naruto practically yelled, and ran up to the pink haired Kinochi and wrapped her in a bear hug and spun her around.

"NARUTOOOOO! Put me down!" Sakura squealed. Naruto put her down. Sakura ran over to Kakashi, removed the ABNU mask and gave him a bear hug and a kiss on his forehead.

"Hey, Kakashi!"

"Good to see you again, Sakura."

Sakura turned to me and just nodded as she said,

"Hey, Sas—!"

She was cut off when I pulled her into my arms. I breathed in her sweet aroma.

"Sas—Sasuke!" She stuttered.

"I've missed you." Sasuke told Sakura truthfully while everybody else gasped, "don't scare me like that again, Sakura, ok?" I asked a breath away from her lips.

"O…Kay?" She said.

"Good." I shocked myself, Sakura, and everybody present when I pressed my lips to Sakura's. I saw her beautiful emerald green eyes go wide in shock then, as the kiss got deeper her eyes softened and finally closed. I broke the kiss and when I saw that Sakura was flushed and a little out of breath, I smirked.

"Hey! That's not fair!" Naruto complained.

"Naruto! What about Hinata?" Tsunade asked.

Naruto went bright red in embarrassment, "right."

"It's about time, Naruto." Was all that Sakura replied.

I took her face in my hands and turned her head so I could look her in the eyes.

"Where were you for the past two years, Sakura?"

Sakura went from flushed and vulnerable-looking to pale and defensive in a blink of an eye.

"I…" Sakura lost her words, and regained them again. "I left to get stronger to impress you guys. I'm way stronger now." She smirked, actually smirked at them.

"But…" Naruto began, "how?"

"I can help explain that."

Sasuke looked over by the window. In a chair was a figure of a person. 'Damn it, I'm starting to lose my touch.'

The figure stepped out into the light and Sasuke almost grabbed his kunai knife and hurled it at the person's heart, before Tsunade looked him in the eyes and shook her head 'no'. Since I couldn't attack the person I did the second best thing, I grabbed Sakura, who was in front of me, by the waist and pulled her behind my body protectively as I stared back into the guy's onyx black eyes, eyes that were starting to change to blood red, that reflected my own swirling, red eyes. My only thought was,

'What the HELL does ITACHI have to do with SAKURA getting stronger?'

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Author's Notes:

Okay, want to know your honest opinions about this, I'm thinking about writing another fanfic based off this one about what happened to Sakura after she left Kahona and one about what happened to Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi and the others while she was gone. Tell me if you think I should go with it or not in your reviews! I won't post the next chapter for this story without 2-3 new comments/reviews about "Late Bloomer." So review my precious readers, REVIEW!