Here's Chapter 10. It's a downer. Sorry. Oh, if you got an email or something that I had chappie 10 already up. My bad. I didn't like it and made some changes. So sorry for any confusion. Hope you guys like. Please Review/ give feedback. I'm thinking about ending it about ch 15 or so. Would that be to long? Would you guys still read it?

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, Sasuke and Sakura would be together, but I don't. Masashi Kishimoto does.

Chapter 10- Ice and Snow

Recap:Karin choked out four words before Sasuke choked the life out of her. "I let her go."

Sasuke dropped Karin's body. He wanted nothing to do with it again and then he bolted out the door. The chased after her, for her love and their happiness together was on, and Sasuke was ready for the challenge. He was on mission. He needed to see her. Needed to tell her. He needed to save her.

All Sakura saw was trees. Trees this and trees that. They looked blurry with all the tears pouring down her face. Sakura lost her foot again, and tripped on a root of a tree.

"Fucking tree," thought Sakura.

Sakura dropped to her knees. It was the twentieth time already. With being depleted of chakra and emotional. She just couldn't handle anything right now, even her own body. She stopped to rest. Balling her eyes out, crying her heart out, and mourning his loss. Then she was just tired. Tired of it, tired of crying, tired of life. Then Sakura suddenly stood.

Sakura was pissed. "When in doubt, get angry," thought Sakura. It was her own damned fault that she got played like that. That he claimed that he finally loved her. That they were going to be together. That he wanted her, in every way, shape and form. It was her fault for believing his lies. That he broke her heart out of some twisted game. He spoon-fed her everything she wanted to hear. Hell, maybe he was going to rape her after all, but she just woke up in time. She couldn't stand it. She wanted absolutely nothing to do with men ever again. It was her fault for believing lies.

Sakura started running. She was running for herself. Running even when her muscles screamed in agony. She was running bring herself back from the brink. When Sasuke left her as a child, she moped, and cried. It took everyone to bring her back. Depression was a bitch, and Sakura was the person it rained on. Depression wanted to eat her from the inside out. She was a desert, a fine wine to fuck with. Her life was in the shreds. There was no hope for nothing. She was becoming an empty glass. She had nobody to help her now. Nobody was here to stitch up her heart, and to give her soul back. She stopped running. She did the only thing that would her feel, she punched a tree. She punched it until her knuckles were raw. She punched it until all emotions slid away. She felt light. Like no could ever hurt her again. Sakura knew she didn't want to cry anymore. The best therapy was to get strong.

"Never again! I will make myself strong! Then I'll kick his ass!" thought Sakura. Anger could only drive her so far. Anger couldn't hold her together. Her anger slipped away. All she felt was cold. He wanted her to leave. He didn't leave her. She wanted to either love him or kill him. That's how angry she was. She wouldn't go back to her weak self. She won't mourn his lost; it was his lost for passing her up. For hating her, for chasing her out of his life, for stealing her heart, then breaking it. Sakura ran again. She ran faster than she ever ran before. At least without chakra. She ran back to her life. Back from her mission. Sakura ran to Konoha, it hopes to never see him again. Never again.

One month later:

"Sakuraaaaa!" shouted Naruto. "Wait up!" Sakura didn't want to see Naruto or anyone really. It was one month that day since she was kidnapped, it was one month since she saw Sasuke. She didn't want company.

"Sakuraaaaa!" desperately shouted Naruto. Sakura was getting fed up. It's been a mile now, and Naruto was still following her home. Couldn't he notice that she doesn't want to be bothered?

"SAKURAAAA!" bellowed Naruto. Oh she was mad. Anger and coldness was all that she seemed to feel. Now she knew how Sasuke felt as a child. Sakura's heart cords painfully twitched just by his name. She was still not over him. She highly doubted that she would ever forget him. She would grow old alone. Sakura came to terms with that.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT NARUTO!" screamed Sakura. She didn't mean to shout at Naruto, but the coldness in her body said otherwise. She didn't want to talk. She didn't want to see Naruto happiness leaking through his pores. Hell, he had a reason to be happy. Hinata had a bouncing baby boy. With blonde hair just like Naruto. She wanted nothing to do with happiness. She wanted nothing to do with anybody.

"Sakura, I didn't mean…I was told by Shikamaru that Tsunade wanted you in the hospital," explained Naruto. Naruto knew that Sakura has never been the same since she was kidnapped. She was snow and ice. Cold, frigid, and hard. She was no longer the blossom of Konoha. She was no longer the sun. Something happened to her, nobody knows. All Naruto knows is what she wrote in her report. It gave nothing away. Whatever she was holding onto, it was killing her. Inside and outside.

"Hey Sakura?" Naruto asked quietly. He knew that he was going to face something similar to her wrath. He was going to be dismissed by her. Like he has been, for this month.

"Yes?" asked Sakura. She had a feeling what was going to be said. She didn't need help. She didn't need saving. She was stronger alone. Alone, so no one could hurt her again.

"If you need to talk, everyone is here. We care Sakura. We hate to see you like this," offered Naruto. He was waiting for the dismissal.

"I don't want to talk about Naruto," simply said Sakura. Naruto has been nagging her and nagging her like he used to do as they were children. Sakura's tainted heart twitched. Even the childhood things reminded her. Did he touch everything in her memories? Why did a simple thing like childhood make her heart twitch? Oh she knew the answer; she'll never simply say it aloud. It was forbidden. Why even this town 'he' touched. It hasn't been happy here for her since she got back

"But," stated Naruto. He shook his head. There was no sense in fighting her. No sense in prying out the story. She was hurting, and he knew it. Oh how he knew it. "Sakura, if you change your mind, you know which house is mine," said Naruto.

There would be no way Sakura would go over the Hyuga residents, not with all the happiness around like a sick disease. She wouldn't plague everyone there with her coldness. There was no point. No point in anything.

"Thanks Naruto," said Sakura. She didn't even try for a pathetic smile like she would have as a child. There was no point in pretending. Everyone could tell she was different. That she was suffering, and didn't want to drag anyone down with her. She waved at Naruto and started walking to the hospital. She could feel him watching her back. Watching her walking away.

"That's right. I'm strong," thought Sakura. Sakura knew it was a lie. She didn't want to admit differently. This little lie was holding her delicately, softly together. If she would ever say it wasn't true. Her whole world would crash, and then who would save her?

Watching Sakura walk away, he saw the dark cloud that followed her. The cloud that she was hold oh so tightly to, like it was her life line. Maybe it was. Maybe it was her new best friends, and her new teachers and her new mother. Her depression was her new life. Sakura embraced it. She welcomed it. She loved it. She pushed everybody away. Him, Kakashi, Ino, Shikamaru, and even her teacher, who was more of a mother to her. Naruto whispered in her direction, so low that she wouldn't have heard him. He wanted to help her. She wouldn't let him. Only one man in the world could.

"I hope he can save you. I really do. For your sake, Sakura."

~Kelso out. I hope you like. Please review if you want to yadda yadda yadda. Please wait patiently for Chapter 11. Until then, Thanks for reading