Thank you for all the reviews, so here is a new chapter! Oh, and a special thanks to nicthepunk. Thank you so SO MUCH for helping me through this and sorry for not being able to reply to your last message! You are just…awesome! Thank you!!! :D

Disclaimer: *Sigh* I don't own Naruto…

It was a cool day and the Uchihas were making their way through the dark forest. They were halfway to their honeymoon destination which was right at the border of the fire country, just next to a landmark the both knew all too well- the great Naruto Bridge, in the Wave Country, which was named after their loud friend. They walked through the cool dark forest quietly, side by side, their feet making scratching noises against the rough ground. They had been travelling for long and the sky had grown dark too. Hardly any words were exchanged amongst them which was characteristic, at least for the male Uchiha.

"Hey, let's rest for a while Sasuke-kun…we've been walking for hours now!" Sakura whined. It was true that they had been walking at a stretch of six hours with no breaks whatsoever, with each of them dragging along their heavy luggage. It was not a very comfortable journey obviously as the destination was quite far away from their home and they had been put at quite a fix a while back as to which turning they had to pursue.

"We've almost reached so stop whining. You're the one who proposed this annoying idea anyway so stop talking and keep moving." He said flatly, not once making eye contact with his wife. In reality, since the dark shadows had completely engulfed the forest in their darkness, nothing was really visible which made their journey furthermore harder.

"I know, but it's really dark and it's very hard to keep up with you! In fact, I can barely make out where we are exactly going- and are you sure we're on the right path- ouch! I think I just almost tripped over a stone- see what I mean!" She protested while bending for a short while to massage her aching toe. She received no reply from Sasuke though, which she thought was indeed very rude. She pointedly stood up to yell something at him but held back at the sight of distant yet near light.

She knew they were near the spot for which they were trudging with heavy luggage endlessly for. An indication to this was the soft and soothing noise of the ocean which was one of the facilities promised at the resort, a nice and warm beach. She became very excited, like a child getting their craved for chocolate.

After a matter of mere seconds, they made their way to the source of the light and humming of the waters. There it lay, still under the moonlight, a well-lit grand resort. From the outside it looked exquisite; a polished wooden bridge, in-between two separated cliffs, led its way to the entrance of the Inn. Around the entrance was a highly decorated garden with a fountain, with water jetting out of saucer-like layers. The structure of the building resembled a traditional Japanese mansion with red roof like structures and white walls. Everything looked aristocratic.

"This is it." Sasuke stated looking from the building to Sakura. "Let's go." Sakura threw him an eager glance and made her way through the bridge quickly, admiring the scenery all the while. It was a beautiful star-studded night and that was what added to the beauty of the landscape. Behind it hid the dark waters of the ocean, splashing its waves about.

Just as Sasuke and Sakura walked through the entrance of the resort, they were greeted by the manager of the hotel who led them right to the reception. "Welcome, welcome! Do you have a reservation?"

Sasuke gave him an indifferent glance and then nodded while Sakura replied a positive "Yes, we do. Our friend Ino Yamanka booked us a room. May we know the details of the room she booked for us?" She requested in a sugar-coated tone.

"Yes, I remember," Replied the manager joyfully. He immediately looked down at the register and started running his index finger down the smooth texture of the paper. He ran his finger on top of a particular reservation and looked up, "Sasuke and Sakura Uchiha- is that right?" The couple nodded in unison. "Yes, Ms. Yamanka has booked you two a honeymoon suite. You've got room number 109 which is on the third and last floor. Dinner shall be ready by 8:00pm which gives you time to freshen-up and relax. We also have a sea beach and joint hot springs here for the honeymoon suite specifically. Enjoy your honeymoon and congratulations on your wedding!" He cheered, handing over the room's card key to Sasuke. Sakura thanked him courteously and Sasuke just nodded distractedly.

Immediately, two bell-boys came round and picked up their luggage and headed for the stairs probably to land their luggage upstairs in the room safely. Meanwhile, Sakura observed the interior of the building. It was just as beautiful as the outside. It was also spacious, not too filled up with furniture. It had decorated pillars with golden and white painted walls and the floor was a smooth, marble one, matching the walls being gold, white and black. Plants were dotted here and there around the far spread hall and reception. Two flights of semi-winding stairs led to the three floors. A red carpet was spread on them giving them the royal look. The resort, from what they had seen till now was excellent. It was simple, yet so sophisticated and complete.

Sakura was in awe. She just loved the resort already even though she had just arrived. "Sakura, hurry up." These words brought her back from her reverie and she quickly looked at the man who had called her name. She ran towards the stairs Sasuke was currently standing on. "Sorry, I was just a bit caught up Sasuke-kun, that's all," She explained. They climbed up the three floors of the stairs. At the end of the steps, they turned right following the bell-boy who was waiting there to guide them to their room. They turned right and walked to the end of the corridor.

Sasuke slipped the card through the appropriate slot and pushed open the door to room 109. The bellhop put their luggage down, was tipped by Sasuke, bowed down politely, closed the door and left the couple to themselves.

The suite was neither too big nor small with the theme of plants dotting the room continuing. A fire place sat at the centre of the room in front of a warm couch and coffee table. The whole floor expanse was carpeted and the wall was wallpapered. A huge comfortable four-poster bed was positioned somewhere nearby the window on the left. In front of it lay a big television. A dressing table, a few highly polished cupboards and a full-length mirror were lined at the other side of the room. There were two relaxing reclining chairs also situated in the room. A fairly large attached bathroom was also present with smooth marble floors, tiled walls and had quite a large bathtub as well as a shower stall.

Everything was decorated and themed perfectly. It was, in Sakura's opinion extremely homely and beautiful.

"It's lovely, ne Sasuke-kun? I already love it!" Sakura said excitedly glancing at an impassive as usual Sasuke. "It's fine," he replied monotonously while picking up his luggage and placing it in one corner of the room. "Do you get the bed or me?" He asked a surprised Sakura. She was puzzled as to what in the world he meant by that.

"What do you mean?" She questioned while throwing him a baffled glance.

"Exactly what I said. Do you want to sleep on the bed or the couch, Sakura?"

"………….."

He sighed at her cluelessness. "Remember your damn terms…"

"…Well, sleeping separately wasn't part of it but ok, since you insist on being away from me…"

"Get to the point. You or me?" He stated. Sakura had never personally told him to sleep on a separate bed even at home. It was him who had suggested it. No, actually he was the one who just directly went for it. She knew she could easily just probably tell him to sleep on the uncomfortable couch but decided that it wouldn't be fair on him since she had already shattered his goal of reviving his clan by delaying the 'task' by two months.

Thinking along the lines of fair play, she came to a decision. "I've got an idea. We can play rock, paper, scissors to decide who gets the bed." She said. She perfectly knew it was a rather immature way of deciding who gets the greater comfort but she thought that this whole war of 'who gets to sleep where' argument was childish too anyway. Plus, that game by all means was after all- fair.

"Sakura…"

"No buts. Think you're not up to it? " She smirked. "C'mon it won't hurt unless you're afraid of…losing…"

Sasuke knew what she was getting at. Smart indeed. "Fine, bring it on. Best of one."

"Ok then! Get ready…rock, paper, scissors, shoot!" She said. As soon as she uttered the last word, the pair revealed their hands. One spread out all their fingers indicating 'paper' and the other, hand fisted up into a ball representing 'rock'.

"I won. Yes, I won! So that means I get the bed!" Sakura said excitedly. Sasuke just cursed under his breath. He was never fortunate with his luck or accepting defeat for that matter, but there was nothing he could do. "Yeah, whatever." He said coldly, annoyance spread over all his features clearly.

He almost hated his life right now. He had just got married to a girl ,who used to be a weakling, suddenly got this boost of super human strength and now she even refused to have his babies. They were on there honeymoon which didn't even feel like a real one as he felt as if he couldn't even touch her. They were going to even sleep separately. It's not that he had any attraction towards the woman he has to address as his wife but he did have very good reasons right now to get annoyed by every word she utters. The worst part of it all was that they had just been married for only over a week and life was already so depressing unlike the peaceful life he had imagined.

It had been a few hours since the newly-wedded couple had arrived in the resort. They had already freshened up regaining all the energy lost during the long trip which ate away almost the whole day. Sasuke was generally just reading something while lying on the couch whereas Sakura was lying on the bed watching some light-hearted television program. The peace was broken by the knock of the door. "Come in," the said girl replied.

"Mr. and Mrs. Uchiha, I have come to ask you whether you would prefer to dine in your room or downstairs with the rest of the guests." Was the manager's request who had just entered through the room.

Sakura gave him a polite smile and questioned Sasuke, "What do you say, why don't we eat with the other people?" He barely responded to her. He just gave a disinterested approval of "Hn."

"Fine then. Mr. Manager, I think we would like to come down to the hall then."

"Yes Madam. Dinner has already been served and the hall is on the first floor to the left. Thank you." With that said, the man left the room.

"Ok Sasuke-kun, let's go." She said while getting up and switching off the TV. She headed towards the door where Sasuke joined her. The pair walked down the stairs in silence once again, following the path which would lead them to the dining hall. On reaching the first floor, they took a left turn as instructed and were greeted by a long table topped with a whole platter of delicious delicacies and around ten smiling guests.

Sakura suddenly became a little self- conscious on having encountered so many people who were currently staring at both of them. She smiled at them warmly nonetheless unlike Sasuke who was just motioning Sakura disinterestedly to hurry up and sit down. She followed him and seated herself beside Sasuke right in the middle of the table.

A fairly young looking woman wished them, "Oh hello! So, when did you arrive here? I'm Mrs. Yagami and this is my husband," She said while gently pointing at the man sitting beside her, "And what about you both?"

Sakura felt a lot more comfortable on being welcomed so kindly. She spared the raven-haired man beside her a glance and then replied, "We arrived just yesterday. You see we're on our honeymoon. I'm Sakura and this is Sasuke Uchiha. Nice to meet you!" She said with a cheery smile. Everyone, including Sasuke, had already begun eating so she did the same. She picked up her chopsticks and digged in to the various delicious looking meals.

After only a few minutes, a young teenage girl with jet black hair looked at Sakura and Sasuke who were waiting for the next course to arrive, "Hi, I'm Natsuki and this is my boyfriend. You've been newly married so… you must be having a love story? What is it?" She asked not-so innocently.

At this, Sasuke looked up at her and Sakura almost choked. She didn't no what to reply so she just made up her mind on just stating the truth, "Actually, we don't really-"

"C'mon, I know you do! I mean, you're Sasuke Uchiha and I know you are the guy every girl fawns over so there must be a reason why you chose her over the others…"

"No, there isn't and it's none-" Sasuke started but was cut in by Sakura who had just painfully stepped on his foot as if daring him to say that. She quickly whispered to him softly saying "Would you stop being so rude with everyone?" Sasuke just glared back at her but all he got to threaten was the side profile of her smooth face. He knew what Sakura was up to. First, she would try to convince everybody that there was no 'love story' but would fail and end up saying a mixture of the truth and lies.

"It's the truth really! We don't have a-" Sakura started but was shortly interrupted by the different voices coming from the eager and insisting crowds.

"It won't hurt to tell-"

"It's just a story-"

"Open up a bit-"

"Ok, ok!" Sakura said, a bit fed-up with the convincing people. She could try and make up a story…it really wouldn't hurt as long as she doesn't go overboard with it…"It all started when Sasuke, Naruto our friend and I were put on the same Genin Team. We were called Team 7. We both never got along with Naruto and kept fighting with him but both of us, we were just per-"

"We were not perfect together either." Sasuke cut in quickly. He was fine with Sakura making up a story but he was not fine with being portrayed as a lovesick puppy. Heck, he wasn't ok with Sakura saying a sentence with 'him', 'Sakura' and 'love' being in the same sentence! The best solution he could think of on the spot was to twist 'their' story into an uneventful, truthful story making him seem like the distant man he was.

His interruption earned him a startled glare from Sakura. But he didn't care. He just continued, "We never got along or even talked to each other and basically had no unity-"

"But this changed later on." Sakura cut in this time. Two could play this game. She knew exactly what Sasuke was trying to do and she accepted it. Secretly, she thought that this night and end result of the story could end up being lots of fun and something they both would laugh at together years later. "I failed as a kunouichi then but Sasuke here- best in the class. As we got more missions, he almost took it upon himself to protect, encourage and care for-"

"-Naruto. He really needed the extra help." Sasuke countered her with a smirk. "We both would constantly have a row and Sakura would always get in the way and cry." This statement really hit Sakura. She thought that that was just pushing the limit. She hated to admit it but that just shook her painfully.

She knew she couldn't play nice anymore and decided to treat this as a full-on verbal battle. "That is just the beginning. At that time, my Sasuke here was a blood thirsty avenger as you all know." She said cunningly knowing fully that this was Sasuke's weakness- issues concerning his brother and clan. "Orochimaru gave him a cursed seal with which he wilted in pain and I had to protect him bravely- twice that too."

Sasuke gritted his teeth. He was definitely not ok with looking like a weakling. "True it may be that she saved me from the wretched cursed seal but after that, she was the one who was crying and being saved by me all the while."

Sakura nodded in concentration thinking of a way to tackle him. She couldn't think of anything much as everything she could say next would backfire at her so she decided to go with the touching truth, "And then one night he was leaving for the sound. It was a full-moon night and I was the one to come in his way. I tried to convince him-"

"-But she failed miserably. I easily knocked her out and left her in the dark night; Unconscious. After that, I headed off to pursue my goal." He said and then smirked at his wife, as if posing her a challenge.

"That is not exactly what happened, Sasuke-kun…earlier; I admit that I was a useless fan girl of his but that soon evolved into love. I confessed my hopeless love for him, begging him to take me with him, but-"

"-She was not able to convince me-"

"-Though he did stay and listen to me patiently all the while. When I threatened him that I would scream and awaken all the villagers, he bid me words of 'thank you' , knocked me out softly, and lay me on the bench and then…then…"

"…I left her and the village and returned a few years later."

There was a moment of silence. The whole room was listening to the pair intently. Sakura was just looking down into her dessert, playing with her ice-cream with a spoon. Sasuke was still unaffected as is nothing had ever happened. It was Natsuki's boyfriend who had broken the tense silence, "And then what happened?"

Sakura turned her head slowly to look up at Sasuke. She turned back to look at the crowd and responded, "Nothing. He came back to Konoha, caused some havoc in the village, everything turned back to normal including him, we became friends, he proposed to me and here we are- married. The end," Sakura said with a bitter smile. Sasuke also nodded in agreement. He thought that it was a reasonable and most of all, a truthful ending.

"Whoa, that was some story!" Natsuki said in awe. "See? So I was right, you both did have a love story. It's pretty late so you can tell me your whole story in detail some other day. It was nice talking to ya!" She said.

Slowly, one by one the hall started to empty. Sasuke and Sakura were the last to leave. They were now in their room again resting on their bed and couch.

"Umm..Sasuke-kun?"

"Hn?"

"Can I ask you something?"

"………"

"It's about today…the way you described us, do you really think we were never even friends and that I was just a nuisance all the time?"

"I didn't say that," He said truthfully.

"I know, but for some reason I got that impression from your words 'cause all you ever added in was something along the lines of 'she cried', 'she wasn't able to' and all…I know I'm being annoying right now but… did you ever even care about me?" She asked with a sad smile. She was afraid of what he may answer. She knows that she was very immature when they started out as genins but she personally thought that she had improved as a teammate, as a friend, as a person as time passed. But she didn't know what he thought of her.

Never.

"You were fine and I will not lie, you did get in the way sometimes." He said bluntly. This once again startled Sakura, inviting sorrow into her system.

"..Right. I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough and…"

"Forget it. It's done and we all are still alive so there's nothing I'm blaming you for."

"You're right. It's been a long day...I'm just a little tired, that's all. I'm going to sleep…Goodnight Sasuke-kun." She said while wrapping herself up comfortably in the warmth of the blankets. Sasuke didn't respond and simply turned off the lights and tried to curl up contentedly into the squishy couch. The room was dark and he had already shut his eyes, ready to fall asleep.

Sakura however, could not do so for a reason she couldn't quite understand herself. Sakura didn't know why she was feeling so depressed and down. It occurred to her that she may be over-reacting to his words spoken at the dining table. She was clueless as to what had triggered this sorrow and thought that it must probably be the fact that after all these years, she was still trapped in a world where she still possessed unrequited love for a certain Sasuke Uchiha who has never even seen her more than just a friend. But they were married, weren't they?

This very thought haunted her every night; where exactly were they? Can their relationship even be tagged as one which a husband and wife share? She always feels whether she should have just rejected him instead of betraying him and not letting him complete his true goal which she had promised to help him complete…in fact, she remembered the time when she had promised Sasuke that she would do anything he asked her to do. Yet, here she was now, not letting him complete his life-long goal.

But she knew that after coming this far, she couldn't just turn back. After all, she had given up so much for him, starting from Ino and their friendship to her feelings. She was unsuccessful at getting rid of her romantic feelings towards Sasuke. She knew that if she would have turned his offer down, she would be regretting it the most for the rest of her life. Naruto would notice and give everything he could to help her. When Sasuke wasn't around, Naruto was the one who knew and understood what Sasuke truly meant to her.

This is what kept her spirit up- the fact that she had put this condition of being apart for two months was according to her, one of the best decisions she had ever made. This way, she would never blame him for not giving her a chance. This way, she would come before his goal of reviving his clan which was exactly what she needed him to do- to notice and acknowledge her presence. Also, there was no looking back now. They say- "A ninja never goes back on their words," She would follow this and try and create a steady, meaningful relationship between Sasuke and her. Not one which felt like hell and punishment everyday but a happy, joyful one.

This was what she felt. Now that it was all sorted out, she knew that she shouldn't take all his words to heart. She had to understand what kind of a man he is too and not just the other way around- frank, distant, quiet and even cold but at the same time even caring no matter how much he denies it. She was also going to give him a chance and tomorrow, she will make sure she doesn't let him suffer on the couch…

Those were her last thoughts before she also went into a blissful sleep with pleasant dreams she hoped in making into reality one day.

Hmm…I'm not that satisfied with the chapter…I feel that there were a LOT of unnecessary parts.

Anyway, review and tell me what you think!