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Chapter 23

Recap: Naruto and Sasuke's eyes widened at the word Sister. "...She has a sister?" the both asked?Ayamari just nodded sadly saying how it was complicated and all she knew is that Elena-Sama is her mother's sister.

"Now what's going to happen?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know. I honestly don't know. I guess you two and even will have to wait and see." Ayamari muttered sadly.

Naruto's POV:

Okay this past few months have been totally out of whack. First I find out that Sasuke-teme return with a pregnant fiancée. Then Sakura and Sasuke argue, then they befriend each other…sort of, then they argue again!

Ayamari goes from hating Teme to liking him, sort of. I think it is because Ayamari realized that Sasuke's older brother, Itachi, cared for Teme immensely and wanted him treated with respect no matter what he did, which I think is the only reason she is being nice to him.

"Dobe, what are you thinking bout?" Sasuke asked me.

"Eh? Oh, it's nothing important to you." I replied.

"Hn," Sasuke looked at me.

"What?" I asked.

"What are you thinking about Dope?" He asked me. And what was with all these names? Dobe, Dope? What is next, Blondie?

"It does not, nor ever will, concern you teme!" I whispered, so that Ayamari would not hear, harshly at him.

"So why does it not concern me?" He asked as he raised his eyebrow.

"It does not because you never cared for her!" I said my voice getting quieter and added more venom.

"So it's about Sakura, eh?" He asked me. I nodded, I mean sure I care for teme like a brother and a best friend, but I also care for Sakura and I don't want him to hurt her anymore. It's killing her.

"Ayamari, why don't you go check on your mother, I am sure she needs you right now." Sasuke told his daughter.

"But-" Ayamari began. "No buts Ayamari go see your mother." Sasuke commanded his daughter.

"Hai, Sasuke-san, I'll go see Kaa-san." Ayamari sighed as she began to walk back to the direction we came from.

"It does not concern you teme." I snarled.

"She is my teammate and the mother of my eldest child. She does concern me Naruto." He shot back.

"Teme how can something concern you about Sakura, when it involves you nearly killing her on a daily bases?" I said my voicing dripping with more venom.

"When did I ever hurt her?" He asked me.

"The question is when have you not ripped her heart out and stepped on it in front of her." I told him my voice beginning to calm down.

Sasuke thought for a moment. "…I don't remember." He replied sadly.

"Exactly, you don't remember because you never were nice to her. You were always cold." I said my voice disillusioned. "You always hurt her, even when we were in the academy. You called her annoying; you knocked her out on a bench, got her pregnant, and came back with another woman. You basically did everything to rip her heart out.

"Did you enjoy hurting her that much teme? Did you enjoy watching her fall?" I asked, anger arising in my voice yet again."

"…" Sasuke said nothing.

"Answer me Damn it!" I growled harshly.

"…" Sasuke still said nothing and it was pissing me off.

"Teme answer me, did you enjoy hurting Sakura that much?"

"NO I DIDN'T HAPPY NOW? HAPPY?" He roared furiously.

I said nothing as I examined his sudden change in behavior.

I sighed. "Teme I need to know something."

"What?"

"Have you ever loved Sakura-chan?" I asked him, desperate to know if he did or not.

"…Do you mean before or after I left the village?"

"It does not matter when. It's just if you have ever loved her, in your entire life! So do or did you ever love her, or did you just want to hurt her?"

"…Hai." He said in a low barley audible voice.

"Yes what? Yes you wanted to hurt her? Or yes that you loved her?" I asked.

"Yes, I loved her." He whispered in a barely audible voice again. I think he hoped I didn't hear him.

But luckily I did hear him, luckily and smiled. So he did love our dear Sakura-chan after all.

"But if you loved Sakura-chan, ever, than why are you with that tramp you're engaged to?" I asked as I brushed my fingers through my hair.

"I'm with her, because Sakura is too good for me…" he said avoiding my eyes.

"Wow the great Sasuke Uchiha finally admits he's not perfect." I said flashing one of my toothy grins.

"I did not admit I am not perfect, I just admitted that I am a killer, a demon; while Sakura is a savior to people in need, an angel. She saves people, I kill them. We can't be together."

"THAT'S NOT TRUE TEME!" I argued, my voice getting wet with anger.

"'Hn', what are you…bipolar?" He asked.

I grinned again. "Maybe I am. I probably got it from Sakura…due to her weird mood swings when she was pregnant…but anyway nothing is impossible teme." I told him.

"Hn," was all we said as we began to walk again.

Sakura's POV:

"Elena-Neechan, I am so sorry. I didn't expect them to show up. Are you okay?" I asked my elder sister. She wasnt really my sister, but my family found her when we were on vacation and we took her in.

She then sort of just grew on me. We became insepratable. We were always connected but neither of us were the other's shadow.

"Who was he?" Elean asked me with a demanding tone. She sounded angered.

"Sasuke Uchiha is his name." I replied. "He is Ayamari's father, and also Itachi's younger brother."

She nodded her head, before asking: "Why does he sound like him?"

I sighed. Unlike Elena I never really could tell the difference in a man's voice unless I knew them for a long time. But Elena could instantly tell if a man sounded like another male. Like for example, Sasuke sounds like Damon. Who was Elena's ex-fiance. Of course he was only her ex-fiance due to a mission, which killed him.

But ever since then, Elena could tell if another male does sound like her Damon. She grew so close to Damon in such a short time, and it scared me. She was always the distant one. She never wanted any of my friends to know about her; when i asked her why, she claimed she was shy and this was a new place for her so she didnt feel comfortable with people knowing about her, except for the hokages. Although I knew that was true, I decided to go along with her choice.

" I don't know." I replied sadly. "I honestly dont know."

Elena just stared at me. "H-how do you not know?" she asked me.

I shrugged. "I just don't," I replied. "I don't know why he sounds like him; I don't even know why he came back." I whispered the last part only to myself, in hopes that Elena, my older adopted sister, would not hear me.

But just as my luck runs, she did.

"Why do you sound angry that he came back? Do you know what I would have done in the man I loved, came back?" Elena asked me, her voice becoming choleric.

"You would be grateful. You would make sure he was with you for ever, and make sure he was jubilant. You wouldn't detest him. You would love him." I replied to her question. "But I am not you sister. I am not grateful that he came back. I would not make him elated. He already has a fiancée. He can be happy with her."

"You forgot to say that you would not love him." My sister reminded me with a smirk plastered onto her elegant face.

"Eh?" I questioned. What did love have to do with making Sasuke happy?

"You told me that if the man I loved came back into my life, I would love him. But you failed to mention that you would not love Uchiha-Kun's little brother. You forgot to say that, which just proved to be your downfall." She replied to me.

"Eh, Neechan you're not making sense!" I told her.

"It is simple Cherry; you are still in love with him. Always and forever, until death does you part! Face it Caro, you love him. Admit it, because the moment you do, you might figure out what you have been missing." Elena, I am guessing she tried to, reasoned with me.

"I can't love him Neechan. He loves another. He can be happy with her. He left me on a bench when we were little. He chose to go to that Snake. Then he got me pregnant and didn't even bother to care, when he found out. "I argued back, her reasoning did not work well for me.

"So you didn't tell him before he got back to Konaha?" My sister asked.

"I tried to tell him before hand to make sure he knew but it would never work out, he always disappeared anyway. So I never could. Besides he doesn't think of Ayamari as his heir. He only thinks of her as what her name sake says she is; a mistake, nothing more." I said the last part as I bit my lip, successfully tearing the skin of it. Although I did not believe my daughter was a mistake, any more, I knew fully well that Sasuke had to have thought she was.

"You positive he thinks that Sakura?" Elena asked me.

I nodded my head. "He was my mistake. I can not erase him. Although I have tried many times…I keep on failing."

"Sakura-chan, Experience is the name we give our mistakes. If Sasuke-san did not do that to you…You would have never realized that everything you are not made you everything you are." She told me in a soothing way.

"Elena," I said before pausing. "If I knew I was going to receive this much pain from him. I would have never said 'I love you' to him. I would have never told him that I would do anything for him. I would never have allowed my self to fall in love with him. I wouldn't be like this. Besides its pathetic how I am trying to hold on to something that will never come back to me; that will never love me.

"I am hurt because of him. I don't love him anymore. In life there is a time where you finally have to say I am done trying and this is my time to say it. I am done trying to get together with Uchiha Sasuke." I told her.

"Sakura, dear, you live, you laugh, you learn and you love. But if then you have to scream, you have to cry. Then you have to crash and burn. It's life Sakura-chan. Without all the bad things, we can't have any good things." Elena cooed.

"I don't like him Elena!"

"Sakura, it is a lot easier to say you don't like him, than to list all the reasons of why you still do."

"That's not it. I don't like him; there is no part of me that still does, Elena!"

"Then tell me why you don't like him."

"I am tired of trying. I am sick of crying. Yeah I am smiling to people, but on the inside I am dying, and it's his entire fault. If I ever loved him again, then I would be holding on to a dream that would never come true for me. I am just sick and tried of him ripping my heart apart; and I know I can't stop him from doing it…but doesn't mean I have to sit and watch him do it with out a fight. I want to forgive him so bad…but as much as much as I want to forgive him…I want to forget him also.

"I can't stand knowing that, that bitch makes him happy…and I don't. I don't understand him. But I guess that is good anyway, because I don't love him anymore. He destroyed me, he basically almost killed me. But the sad thing is, my heart was ripped in two, and I am struggling to breath at night. But I know that if I had the choice to do it all again, I would go back and do it again. That is how pathetic, and weak minded I really am. I actually became that desperate. But I can not change that fact, even if I went back in time to fix it."

"So what would you tell him if he went back to the past?"

"I would tell him: Feel my pain. Hear my screams. And watch me fade away." I said biting my lip. Man I need therapy.

Elena was silent for a moment. "Okay, now why do you love him?"

"I love him because; I don't know I guess I just do. I just love him...because I do. I can not explain it. No one knows why I love him, not even me…all I know is that I love him, whether it is right or wrong." I replied.

Elena smirked, because I just confirmed that she was right, and that it was easier saying I hate him than admitting I like him.

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